Bishop Joseph Abel Francis, S.V.D. †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Newark, New Jersey, USA

Titular Bishop of Valliposita

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Sep 1923		Born
1943²	19.2	First Vows	Member of Society of the Divine Word
1948²	24.2	Final Vows	Member of Society of the Divine Word
7 Oct 1950	27.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Divine Word
3 May 1976	52.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
3 May 1976	52.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Valliposita
25 Jun 1976	52.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Valliposita
30 Jun 1995	71.7	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
1 Sep 1997	73.9	Died	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Joseph Abel Francis
(WikiData: Q16013842)
Bishop Joseph Abel Francis S.V.D. (born 30 Sep 1923, died 1 Sep 1997) Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Newark

Event Place
Birth Place Lafayette, LA, Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana
Ordained Priest Bay St. Louis, MS
Ordained Bishop Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Newark, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey
Death Place Verona, NJ, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey
Buried Place (Original) St. John, Cemetery, Lafayette, LA, Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana

a priest for 46.9 years
a bishop for 21.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Richard Oliver Gerow †
Bishop of Natchez, Mississippi
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Leo Gerety †
Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Thomas Aloysius Boland †
Archbishop Emeritus of Newark, New Jersey
Bishop Harold Robert Perry, S.V.D. †
Titular Bishop of Mons in Mauretania

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Peter Leo Gerety † (1966)
Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey
Archbishop Henry Joseph O’Brien † (1940)
Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Edgar Moreira da Cunha, S.D.V. (1982)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Anthony Michael Pilla † (1979)
Bishop James Anthony Griffin (1979)
Archbishop James Patterson Lyke, O.F.M. † (1979)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Lafayette, LA, Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana
Ordained Priest	Bay St. Louis, MS
Ordained Bishop	Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Newark, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey
Death Place	Verona, NJ, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey
Buried Place (Original)	St. John, Cemetery, Lafayette, LA, Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 151, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 40, Number 2,522
firs/fina: Index Defunctorum Societatis Verbi Divini 1875-2010, Page 34
loc: CB, 2 Dec 2021
c1: CB, 21 May 2022

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