Bishop John Anthony Boissonneau

Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Titular Bishop of Tambeae

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Dec 1949		Born
14 Dec 1974	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
23 Mar 2001	51.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
23 Mar 2001	51.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tambeae
29 May 2001	51.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tambeae

MicroData Summary
John Anthony Boissonneau
Bishop John Anthony Boissonneau
(born 7 Dec 1949)
Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto

Ad Limina - September 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - April 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Scarborough, Archdiocese of Toronto, Ontario
Ordained Bishop Saint Michael, Cathedral, Toronto, Archdiocese of Toronto, Ontario

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Toronto.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Philip Francis Pocock †
Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario
Principal Consecrator:
Aloysius Matthew Cardinal Ambrozic †
Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Nicola de Angelis, C.F.I.C. †
Titular Bishop of Remesiana
Bishop Anthony Giroux Meagher †
Titular Bishop of Dura

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Aloysius Matthew Cardinal Ambrozic † (1976)
Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario
Archbishop Philip Francis Pocock † (1944)
Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario
Archbishop Ildebrando Antoniutti † (1936)
Titular Archbishop of Synnada in Phrygia
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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 (Jean-François) 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 †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Vincent Nguyễn Mạnh Hiếu (2010)
Bishop Ivan Philip Camilleri (2021)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 105211348
WikiData: Q763223

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 207
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 163, Number 13,980
b: Dictionnaire Biographique des Évèques Catholiques du Canada, Page 270, and Page 271

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