Archbishop Dermot Joseph Ryan †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin, Ireland

Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

Motto: In Persona Christi

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Jun 1924		Born
28 May 1950	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Dublin, Ireland
29 Dec 1971	47.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland
13 Feb 1972	47.6	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland
8 Apr 1984	59.7	Appointed	Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
1 Sep 1984	60.1	Resigned	Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland
21 Feb 1985	60.6	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin, Ireland

MicroData Summary
Dermot Joseph Ryan
Archbishop Dermot Joseph Ryan
(born 26 Jun 1924, died 21 Feb 1985)
Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin

Event Place
Birth Place Dublin, Archdiocese of Dublin
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Buried Place (Original) St. Mary's, Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, Archdiocese of Dublin

a priest for 34.7 years
a bishop for 13.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bernardus Johannes Cardinal Alfrink †
Archbishop of Utrecht
William John Cardinal Conway †
Archbishop of Armagh

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop James Kavanagh † (1973)
Bishop Dermot Patrick O’Mahony † (1975)
Bishop Laurence Forristal † (1980)
Bishop Brendan Oliver Comiskey, SS.CC. † (1980)
Bishop Donal Brendan Murray † (1982)

External Link(s):

Find a Grave (Grave): 112021177
VIAF: 44304888
WikiData: Q1200281

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 17, Number 891
mn: JI, 30 Nov 2025

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