Bishop Walter Francis Sullivan †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Richmond, Virginia, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Jun 1928		Born
9 May 1953	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Richmond, Virginia, USA
15 Oct 1970	42.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
15 Oct 1970	42.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Selsea
1 Dec 1970	42.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Selsea
4 Jun 1974	45.9	Appointed	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
19 Jul 1974	46.1	Installed	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
16 Sep 2003	75.2	Retired	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
11 Dec 2012	84.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Richmond, Virginia, USA

MicroData Summary for Walter Francis Sullivan
(VIAF: 295899392; WikiData: Q892155)
Bishop Walter Francis Sullivan (born 10 Jun 1928, died 11 Dec 2012) Bishop Emeritus of Richmond

Ad Limina - April 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Washington, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Priest Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Ordained Bishop Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Death Place Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Buried Place (Original) Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia

a priest for 59.5 years
a bishop for 42.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Peter Leo Ireton †
Bishop of Richmond, Virginia
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop John Joyce Russell †
Bishop of Richmond, Virginia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Ernest Leo Unterkoefler †
Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina
Bishop Joseph Howard Hodges †
Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Joyce Russell † (1950)
Bishop of Richmond, Virginia
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:
Bishop David Edward Foley † (1986)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Washington, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Priest	Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Ordained Bishop	Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Death Place	Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Buried Place (Original)	Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia

Source(s):

d: CB, 11 Dec 2012
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 212, Necrology (back)
Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 15, Number 823
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1970, Number 144
c1: CB, 21 May 2022

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