Bishop John William Comber, M.M. †

Deceased

Superior General Emeritus of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America

Titular Bishop of Foratiana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Mar 1906		Born	Lawrence, MA
1 Feb 1931	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
6 Aug 1956	50.4	Appointed	Superior General of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
23 Jan 1959	52.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Foratiana
9 Apr 1959	53.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Foratiana
7 Aug 1966	60.4	Resigned	Superior General of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
27 Mar 1998	92.0	Died	Superior General Emeritus of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

a priest for 67.2 years
a bishop for 39.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Raymond Aloysius Lane, M.M. †
Bishop Martin Dewey McNamara †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John William Comber, M.M. † (1959)
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop William Francis Kupfer, M.M. †
Bishop Edward Louis Fedders, M.M. †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas Patrick Collins, M.M. †
Bishop William John McNaughton, M.M.

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 154, Necrology (back)
b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1959, Number 30

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