Bishop Thomas James Olmsted

Bishop Emeritus of Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Jan 1947		Born
2 Jul 1973	26.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
16 Feb 1999	52.0	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Wichita, Kansas, USA
20 Apr 1999	52.2	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Wichita, Kansas, USA
4 Oct 2001	54.7	Succeeded	Bishop of Wichita, Kansas, USA
25 Nov 2003	56.8	Appointed	Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona, USA
20 Dec 2003	56.9	Installed	Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona, USA
3 Jan 2008	60.9	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Gallup, New Mexico, USA
5 Feb 2009	62.0	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Gallup, New Mexico, USA
1 Aug 2018	71.5	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Holy Protection of Mary of Phoenix (Ruthenian), Arizona, USA
10 Jun 2022	75.3	Retired	Bishop of Phoenix, Arizona, USA
23 Jan 2023	76.0	Retired	Apostolic Administrator of Holy Protection of Mary of Phoenix (Ruthenian), Arizona, USA

MicroData Summary for Thomas James Olmsted
(VIAF: 26162842073073040960; WikiData: Q2425043)
Bishop Thomas James Olmsted (born 21 Jan 1947) Bishop Emeritus of Phoenix

Event Place
Birth Place Marysville, KS, Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas
Ordained Priest San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Century II Convention Hall, Wichita, Diocese of Wichita, Kansas

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Phoenix.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop James Aloysius Hickey †
Titular Bishop of Taraqua
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Eugene John Gerber †
Bishop of Wichita, Kansas
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop James Patrick Keleher
Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas
Bishop Fabian Wendelin Bruskewitz
Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Eugene John Gerber † (1976)
Bishop of Wichita, Kansas
Bishop David Monas Maloney † (1961)
Bishop of Wichita, Kansas
Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi † (1949)
Titular Archbishop of Myra
Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, O.C.D. † (1930)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Basilio Cardinal Pompilj † (1913)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Antonio Cardinal Agliardi † (1884)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Eduardo Alanis Nevares (2010)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Felipe de Jesús Estévez (2004)
Bishop Kevin Carl Rhoades (2004)
Archbishop Michael Owen Jackels (2005)
Bishop James Sean Wall (2009)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Marysville, KS, Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas
Ordained Priest	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Century II Convention Hall, Wichita, Diocese of Wichita, Kansas

Source(s):

ab: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 154, Number 13,502
ab: Bollettino, 1 Aug 2018
c1: CB, 14 May 2022
r: Bollettino, 10 Jun 2022
r: CB, 31 Aug 2023

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