Bishop Edward Robert Adams

Bishop Emeritus of Oudtshoorn

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 May 1934		Born	Retreat
6 Jan 1966	31.6	Ordained Priest	Priest
2 May 1983	48.9	Appointed	Bishop of Oudtshoorn, South Africa
16 Jul 1983	49.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Oudtshoorn, South Africa
28 May 2010	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Oudtshoorn, South Africa

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Oudtshoorn.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †
Principal Consecrator:
Owen Cardinal McCann †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy
Archbishop George Francis Daniel

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Edward Robert Adams (1983)
Owen Cardinal McCann † (1950)
Archbishop Martin Lucas, S.V.D. † (1945)
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Herbert Nikolaus Lenhof, S.A.C.
Archbishop Lawrence Patrick Henry
Bishop Francisco Fortunato de Gouveia

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 28 May 2010
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 138

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