Bishop William (Leonard) Kenney, C.P.

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Birmingham, England, Great Britain

Titular Bishop of Midica

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 May 1946		Born
26 Sep 1963	17.3	Professed	Member of Congregation of the Passion
29 Jun 1969	23.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Passion
13 May 1987	41.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden
13 May 1987	41.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Midica
24 Aug 1987	41.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Midica
17 Oct 2006	60.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
22 May 2009	63.0	Appointed	Administrator of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
8 Dec 2009	63.5	Ceased	Administrator of Birmingham, England, Great Britain
7 May 2021	75.0	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham, England, Great Britain

MicroData Summary
William (Leonard) Kenney
Bishop William (Leonard) Kenney C.P.
(born 7 May 1946)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Birmingham

Ad Limina - January 2010: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Newcastle upon Tyne, Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle, England
Ordained Priest St. Chad, Cathedral Basilica, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Archdiocese of Birmingham, England
Ordained Bishop St. Erik, Cathedral, Stockholm, Diocese of Stockholm, Sweden

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Birmingham.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop George Patrick Dwyer †
Archbishop of Birmingham, England
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Hubertus Brandenburg †
Bishop of Stockholm
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Paul Verschuren, S.C.I. †
Bishop of Helsinki
Bishop Norbert Mary Leonard James Dorsey, C.P. †
Titular Bishop of Mactaris

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Hubertus Brandenburg † (1975)
Bishop of Stockholm
Bishop Helmut Hermann Wittler † (1957)
Bishop of Osnabrück
Josef Cardinal Frings † (1942)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo † (1922)
Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Libya
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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:
Anders Cardinal Arborelius, O.C.D. (1998)
Bishop David Ernest Charles Evans (2020)
Bishop Stephen James Lawrence Wright (2020)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Newcastle upon Tyne, Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle, England
Ordained Priest	St. Chad, Cathedral Basilica, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Archdiocese of Birmingham, England
Ordained Bishop	St. Erik, Cathedral, Stockholm, Diocese of Stockholm, Sweden

External Link(s):

VIAF: 27037321
WikiData: Q1819048

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 17 Oct 2006
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 108, Number 9,512
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 111, Number 9,800
loc: CL, 25 Jan 2018
c1/loc: CL, 29 May 2018
r: Bollettino, 7 May 2021
fn: CL, 6 Oct 2022

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