Bishop Leo Morris Clarke †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Aug 1923		Born
24 Jul 1949	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Melbourne, Australia
10 Apr 1976	52.6	Appointed	Bishop of Maitland, Australia
2 Jun 1976	52.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Maitland, Australia
3 Nov 1995	72.1	Resigned	Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia
3 Jun 2006	82.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia

MicroData Summary
Leo Morris Clarke
Bishop Leo Morris Clarke
(born 29 Aug 1923, died 3 Jun 2006)
Bishop Emeritus of Maitland-Newcastle

Event Place
Birth Place Elsternwick

a priest for 56.8 years
a bishop for 30.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Daniel Mannix †
Archbishop of Melbourne
Principal Consecrator:
James Darcy Cardinal Freeman †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Thomas Vincent Cahill †
Archbishop of Canberra (and Goulburn)
Archbishop Thomas Francis Little †
Archbishop of Melbourne

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

James Darcy Cardinal Freeman † (1957)
Archbishop of Sydney
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:
Bishop Brian Gregory Mascord (1992)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Michael John Malone (1995)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Francis Peter de Campo † (1980)
Archbishop Joseph Eric D’Arcy † (1981)
Archbishop Philip Edward Wilson † (1996)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q6523632

Source(s):

d: CB
b/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 110, Additions/Corrections (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 126
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 187, Necrology (back)

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