Bishop Michael Joseph Cleary, C.S.Sp. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Banjul, Gambia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Sep 1925		Born
29 Jun 1952	26.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Holy Spirit
24 Jan 1981	55.3	Appointed	Bishop of Banjul, Gambia
25 Mar 1981	55.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Banjul, Gambia
25 Feb 2006	80.4	Retired	Bishop of Banjul, Gambia
3 Sep 2020	95.0	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Banjul, Gambia

MicroData Summary
Michael Joseph Cleary
Bishop Michael Joseph Cleary C.S.Sp.
(born 1 Sep 1925, died 3 Sep 2020)
Bishop Emeritus of Banjul

Event Place
Birth Place Tulrahan
Ordained Bishop Assomption, Cathedral, Banjul, Diocese of Banjul
Death Place Dublin, Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland

a priest for 68.1 years
a bishop for 39.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Johannes Dyba †
Titular Archbishop of Neapolis in Proconsulari
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Joseph Henry Ganda †
Archbishop of Freetown and Bo
Bishop Michael Joseph Moloney, C.S.Sp. †
Bishop Emeritus of Banjul

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Johannes Dyba † (1979)
Titular Archbishop of Neapolis in Proconsulari
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Robert Patrick Ellison, C.S.Sp. † (2006)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q974137

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 25 Feb 2006
bp/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 137
mn: CB, 1 Dec 2017
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 67, Number 5,292
d: CB, 3 Sep 2020
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 246, Necrology (back)

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