Bishop Raymond William Lessard

Bishop Emeritus of Savannah, Georgia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Dec 1930		Born	Grafton
16 Dec 1956	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Fargo, North Dakota, USA
5 Mar 1973	42.2	Appointed	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA
27 Apr 1973	42.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA
7 Feb 1995	64.1	Retired	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA

MicroData Summary for Raymond William Lessard:
Bishop Raymond William Lessard (born 21 Dec 1930) Bishop Emeritus of Savannah

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Savannah.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Thomas Andrew Donnellan †
Archbishop of Atlanta, Georgia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Justin Albert Driscoll †
Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota
Bishop Francis Joseph Gossman †
Titular Bishop of Aguntum

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Thomas Andrew Donnellan † (1964)
Archbishop of Atlanta, Georgia
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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 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 †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Oscar Hugh Lipscomb (1980)
Bishop John Kevin Boland (1995)

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