Bishop Joseph Peter O’Connell †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia

Titular Bishop of Sanctus Germanus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Dec 1931		Born
28 Jul 1957	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Melbourne, Australia
24 Jan 1976	44.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia
24 Jan 1976	44.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sanctus Germanus
31 Mar 1976	44.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sanctus Germanus
11 Dec 2006	75.0	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia
27 Apr 2013	81.3	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia

MicroData Summary
Joseph Peter O’Connell
Bishop Joseph Peter O’Connell
(born 10 Dec 1931, died 27 Apr 2013)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne

Event Place
Birth Place North Melbourne
Ordained Bishop St. Patrick, Melbourne, Archdiocese of Melbourne

a priest for 55.7 years
a bishop for 37.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Justin Daniel Simonds †
Titular Archbishop of Antinoë
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Thomas Francis Little †
Archbishop of Melbourne
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Arthur Francis Fox †
Bishop of Sale
Bishop Ronald Austin Mulkearns †
Bishop of Ballarat

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Thomas Francis Little † (1973)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Ordained Deacon:
Archbishop Anthony John Ireland (1986)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Peter Joseph Connors (1987)
George Cardinal Pell † (1987)
Bishop Hilton Forrest Deakin † (1993)
Bishop Joseph Angelo Grech † (1999)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1707813

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
r: Bollettino, 11 Dec 2006
bp/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 216, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 50, Number 3,437

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