Archbishop Virgil Patrick Copas, M.S.C. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kerema, Papua New Guinea

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Mar 1915		Born
23 Jul 1944	29.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
19 Dec 1959	44.7	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
19 Dec 1959	44.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bennefa
27 Apr 1960	45.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Bennefa
15 Nov 1966	51.6	Appointed	Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
19 Dec 1975	60.7	Resigned	Archbishop of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
24 May 1976	61.1	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Kerema, Papua New Guinea
6 Dec 1988	73.7	Resigned	Bishop of Kerema, Papua New Guinea
3 Oct 1993	78.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kerema, Papua New Guinea

MicroData Summary for Virgil Patrick Copas
(WikiData: Q7933804)
Archbishop Virgil Patrick Copas M.S.C. (born 19 Mar 1915, died 3 Oct 1993) Bishop Emeritus of Kerema

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

Event Place
Birth Place Toowoomba, Australia

a priest for 49.1 years
a bishop for 33.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Duhig †
Archbishop of Brisbane
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop William Joseph Brennan †
Bishop of Toowoomba
Bishop John Patrick O’Loughlin, M.S.C. †
Bishop of Darwin

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop James Duhig † (1905)
Archbishop of Brisbane
Archbishop Michael Kelly † (1901)
Titular Archbishop of Achrida
Francesco di Paolo Cardinal Satolli † (1888)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Desmond Charles Moore, M.S.C. † (1970)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Louis Vangeke, M.S.C. † (1970)
Archbishop Herman To Paivu † (1974)
Bishop Paul John Marx, M.S.C. † (1985)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Toowoomba, Australia

Source(s):

c2+: CB
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 137
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1960, Number 33
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 12, Number 613, Ascendance

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