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Humberto Sousa Cardinal Medeiros †

Deceased

Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts

Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna

Events

a priest for 37.3 years a bishop for 17.3 years a cardinal for 10.5 years

Ordained Priest by: Bishop James Edwin Cassidy † Bishop of Fall River, Massachusetts Principal Consecrator: Bishop James Louis Connolly † Bishop of Fall River, Massachusetts Principal Co-Consecrators: Bishop James Joseph Gerrard † Titular Bishop of Forma Bishop Gerald Vincent McDevitt † Titular Bishop of Tigias

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Bishop James Louis Connolly † (1945) Bishop of Fall River, Massachusetts Archbishop John Gregory Murray † (1920) Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota Archbishop Giovanni Vincenzo Bonzano † (1912) Titular Archbishop of Melitene Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900) Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882) Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia Edward Henry Cardinal Howard † (1872) Archpriest of the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano {Saint Peter Basilica} Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851) Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822) Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819) Cardinal-Bishop of Albano Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777) Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767) Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio 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

Ordained Priest: Bishop Richard Joseph Malone (1972) Bishop Richard Gerard Lennon (1973) Bishop Robert Peter Deeley (1973) Bishop Peter John Uglietto (1977) Bishop Robert Francis Hennessey (1978) Principal Consecrator of: Bishop Joseph Francis Maguire (1972) Bishop Lawrence Joseph Riley † (1972) Bishop Thomas Vose Daily (1975) Bishop John Michael D’Arcy † (1975) Bishop John Joseph Mulcahy † (1975) Bishop Joseph John Ruocco † (1975) Bishop Daniel Anthony Hart † (1976) Archbishop Alfred Clifton Hughes (1981)