Bishop Edward Joseph O'Donnell †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Lafayette, Louisiana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Jul 1931		Born	Saint Louis
6 Apr 1957	25.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
6 Dec 1983	52.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
6 Dec 1983	52.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Britonia
10 Feb 1984	52.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Britonia
8 Nov 1994	63.3	Appointed	Bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
16 Dec 1994	63.4	Installed	Bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
8 Nov 2002	71.3	Resigned	Bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
1 Feb 2009	77.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

a priest for 51.8 years
a bishop for 25.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter †
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Lawrence May †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop George Joseph Gottwald †
Bishop Charles Roman Koester †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Edward Joseph O'Donnell † (1984)
Archbishop John Lawrence May † (1967)
John Patrick Cardinal Cody † (1947)
Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter † (1933)
Bishop Joseph Chartrand † (1910)
Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Cardinal Falconio, O.F.M. † (1892)
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Pope Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti † (1827)
Pope Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Castiglioni † (1800)
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Enrique Cardinal Enríquez † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Paul Albert Zipfel
Bishop Michael John Sheridan
Archbishop Joseph Fred Naumann

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