John Joseph Cardinal O’Connor †

Deceased

Archbishop of New York, New York, USA

Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Jan 1920		Born
15 Dec 1945	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
24 Apr 1979	59.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of United States of America, Military
24 Apr 1979	59.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cursola
27 May 1979	59.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cursola
6 May 1983	63.3	Appointed	Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
29 Jun 1983	63.4	Installed	Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
26 Jan 1984	64.0	Appointed	Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
19 Mar 1984	64.1	Installed	Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
25 May 1985	65.3	Elevated to Cardinal
25 May 1985	65.3	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
3 May 2000	80.3	Died	Archbishop of New York, New York, USA

MicroData Summary for John Joseph O’Connor
(VIAF: 4947420; WikiData: Q959357)
John Joseph Cardinal O’Connor (born 15 Jan 1920, died 3 May 2000) Archbishop of New York

Consistory - 1985: Created Cardinal

Event Place
Birth Place Philadelphia, PA, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place New York, Archdiocese of New York, New York
Buried Place (Original) Crypt, St. Patrick's, Cathedral, New York, Archdiocese of New York, New York

a priest for 54.3 years
a bishop for 20.9 years
a cardinal for 14.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Hugh Louis Lamb †
Titular Bishop of Helos
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †
Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 Joseph Charles Bambera (1983)
Bishop Edmund James Whalen (1984)
Bishop Peter John Byrne (1984)
Bishop John Joseph O’Hara (1984)
Archbishop Charles John Brown (1989)
Bishop Robert Joseph Lombardo, C.F.R. (1990)
Bishop John Samuel Bonnici (1991)
Bishop William James Muhm (1995)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Alfred James Jolson, S.J. † (1988)
Bishop Patrick Joseph Thomas Sheridan † (1990)
Bishop James Michael Moynihan † (1995)
Edwin Frederick Cardinal O’Brien (1996)
Bishop Robert Anthony Brucato † (1997)
Bishop James Francis McCarthy (1999)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Edward Michael Cardinal Egan † (1985)
Archbishop Roberto Octavio González Nieves, O.F.M. (1988)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Philadelphia, PA, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	New York, Archdiocese of New York, New York
Buried Place (Original)	Crypt, St. Patrick's, Cathedral, New York, Archdiocese of New York, New York

Source(s):

ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 159, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 54, Number 3,924

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