Bishop William Benedict Friend †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Oct 1931		Born
7 May 1959	27.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mobile-Birmingham, Alabama, USA
31 Aug 1979	47.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Alexandria-Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
31 Aug 1979	47.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Pomaria
30 Oct 1979	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Pomaria
17 Nov 1982	51.0	Appointed	Bishop of Alexandria-Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
11 Jan 1983	51.2	Installed	Bishop of Alexandria-Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
16 Jun 1986	54.6	Appointed	Bishop of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
30 Jul 1986	54.7	Installed	Bishop of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
20 Dec 2006	75.1	Retired	Bishop of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
2 Apr 2015	83.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Shreveport, Louisiana, USA

MicroData Summary for William Benedict Friend
(VIAF: 23841754; WikiData: Q8005381)
Bishop William Benedict Friend (born 22 Oct 1931, died 2 Apr 2015) Bishop Emeritus of Shreveport

Ad Limina - November 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Miami, FL, Diocese of Saint Augustine, Florida
Ordained Priest Immaculate Conception, Cathedral, Mobile, Diocese of Mobile-Birmingham, Alabama
Ordained Bishop Immaculate Conception, Cathedral, Mobile, Diocese of Mobile, Alabama

a priest for 55.9 years
a bishop for 35.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Thomas Joseph Toolen †
Bishop of Mobile-Birmingham, Alabama
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Philip Matthew Hannan †
Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Lawrence May †
Bishop of Mobile, Alabama
Bishop Lawrence Preston Joseph Graves †
Bishop of Alexandria-Shreveport, Louisiana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Philip Matthew Hannan † (1956)
Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Oscar Hugh Lipscomb † (1980)
Archbishop John Clement Favalora (1986)

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 20 Dec 2006
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 225, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 58, Number 4,318
c1: CB, 11 May 2022

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