Bishop William Joseph Brennan †

Deceased

Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Nov 1904		Born
17 Dec 1927	23.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Wilcannia-Forbes, Australia
7 Aug 1953	48.7	Appointed	Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia
21 Oct 1953	48.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia
8 Nov 1953	49.0	Installed	Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia
11 Sep 1975	70.8	Died	Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia

MicroData Summary for William Joseph Brennan
(WikiData: Q31945111)
Bishop William Joseph Brennan (born 4 Nov 1904, died 11 Sep 1975) Bishop of Toowoomba

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Lewisham, Archdiocese of Sydney
Ordained Bishop Holy Family, Church, Parkes
Death Place Toowoomba, Diocese of Toowoomba

a priest for 47.7 years
a bishop for 21.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Basilio Cardinal Pompilj †
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Principal Consecrator:
Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Thomas Martin Fox †
Bishop of Wilcannia-Forbes
Bishop Bernard Denis Stewart †
Bishop of Sandhurst

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy † (1935)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop Filippo Bernardini † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Antiochia in Pisidia
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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop John Alexius Bathersby † (1961)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Virgil Patrick Copas, M.S.C. † (1960)

Source(s):

c1+: AustOceaniaBishops.org
bp/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1953, Number 94

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