Bishop Lawrence Donald Soens †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Sioux City, Iowa, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Aug 1926		Born
6 May 1950	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Davenport, Iowa, USA
15 Jun 1983	56.8	Appointed	Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, USA
17 Aug 1983	56.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, USA
28 Nov 1998	72.2	Resigned	Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, USA
1 Nov 2021	95.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Sioux City, Iowa, USA

MicroData Summary
Lawrence Donald Soens
Bishop Lawrence Donald Soens
(born 26 Aug 1926, died 1 Nov 2021)
Bishop Emeritus of Sioux City

Ad Limina - November 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Iowa City
Ordained Priest Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Davenport, Diocese of Davenport, Iowa
Ordained Bishop Sioux City, Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa
Death Place Holy Spirit Retirement Home, Sioux City, Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa

a priest for 71.4 years
a bishop for 38.2 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Ralph Leo Hayes †
Bishop of Davenport, Iowa
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Joseph Byrne †
Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Gerald Francis O’Keefe †
Bishop of Davenport, Iowa
Bishop Frank Henry Greteman †
Bishop Emeritus of Sioux City, Iowa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop James Joseph Byrne † (1947)
Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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:
Daniel Nicholas Cardinal DiNardo (1997)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Dennis Marion Schnurr (2001)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q607003

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 80, Number 6,545
d/c1: CB, 3 Nov 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)

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