Bishop William John Brennan †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Wagga Wagga, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Feb 1938		Born
21 Dec 1960	22.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Wilcannia-Forbes, Australia
16 Jan 1984	45.9	Appointed	Bishop of Wagga Wagga, Australia
1 Mar 1984	46.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Wagga Wagga, Australia
5 Feb 2002	63.9	Resigned	Bishop of Wagga Wagga, Australia
31 Aug 2013	75.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Wagga Wagga, Australia

MicroData Summary
William John Brennan
Bishop William John Brennan
(born 16 Feb 1938, died 31 Aug 2013)
Bishop Emeritus of Wagga Wagga

Event Place
Birth Place Arncliffe
Ordained Bishop St. Michael, Cathedral, Wagga Wagga, Diocese of Wagga Wagga

a priest for 52.6 years
a bishop for 29.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Grégoire-Pierre XV (François) Cardinal Agagianian †
Patriarch of Cilicia (Armenian)
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Edward Bede Clancy †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Luigi Barbarito †
Titular Archbishop of Fiorentino
Archbishop Francis Patrick Carroll †
Archbishop of Canberra (and Goulburn)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Edward Bede Clancy † (1974)
Archbishop of Sydney
James Darcy Cardinal Freeman † (1957)
Archbishop of Sydney
Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy † (1935)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop Filippo Bernardini † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Antiochia in Pisidia
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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

Ordained Priest:
Father Peter Mel Murphy (1992)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2546697

Source(s):

ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 110, Additions/Corrections (back)
b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 2011, Page 791
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 216, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 220, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 86, Number 7,193

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