Bishop Lawrence Bernard Brennan Casey †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Paterson, New Jersey, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Sep 1905		Born
7 Jun 1930	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rochester, New York, USA
10 Feb 1953	47.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Rochester, New York, USA
10 Feb 1953	47.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cea
5 May 1953	47.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cea
4 Mar 1966	60.4	Appointed	Bishop of Paterson, New Jersey, USA
13 Jun 1977	71.7	Resigned	Bishop of Paterson, New Jersey, USA
15 Jun 1977	71.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Paterson, New Jersey, USA

MicroData Summary
Lawrence Bernard Brennan Casey
Bishop Lawrence Bernard Brennan Casey
(born 6 Sep 1905, died 15 Jun 1977)
Bishop Emeritus of Paterson

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 Rochester, NY, Diocese of Rochester, New York
Ordained Priest Rochester, NY, Diocese of Rochester, New York
Ordained Bishop Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Rochester, NY, Diocese of Rochester, New York
Death Place Paterson, Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey

a priest for 47.0 years
a bishop for 24.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Francis O’Hern †
Bishop of Rochester, New York
Principal Consecrator:
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman †
Archbishop of New York, New York
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Walter Andrew Foery †
Bishop of Syracuse, New York
Bishop Alexander Mieceslaus Zaleski †
Titular Bishop of Lyrbe

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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:
Bishop Denis James Madden (1967)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop George Elmer Bernarding, S.V.D. † (1960)
Bishop John Edward Cohill, S.V.D. † (1967)
Bishop Joseph Lloyd Hogan † (1969)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q6503824

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1953, Number 38
c1: CB, [519] 2022

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