Bishop Richard James Umbers

Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia

Titular Bishop of Thala

Motto: Fides Et Ratio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Mar 1971		Born
14 Feb 2002	30.9	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Opus Dei
1 Sep 2002	31.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Opus Dei
24 Jun 2016	45.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia
24 Jun 2016	45.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Thala
24 Aug 2016	45.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thala

MicroData Summary
Richard James Umbers
Bishop Richard James Umbers
(born 17 Mar 1971)
Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney

Ad Limina - June 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Otahuhu, Diocese of Auckland, New Zealand
Ordained Priest Marian, Shrine, Torreciudad, Spain
Ordained Bishop Saint Mary, Cathedral, Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Sydney.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Javier Echevarría Rodríguez †
Titular Bishop of Cilibia
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Anthony Colin Joseph Fisher, O.P.
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Mark Benedict Coleridge
Archbishop of Brisbane
Bishop Stephen Lee Bun Sang
Bishop of Macau

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Anthony Colin Joseph Fisher, O.P. (2003)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop George Pell † (1987)
Archbishop of Sydney
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q24758785

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 24 Jun 2016
ob/c2: CB, 24 Jun 2016
c34: CB, 24 Aug 2016
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 229, Number 19,083

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