Bishop Edmund John Patrick Collins, M.S.C. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Darwin, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Mar 1931		Born
20 Jul 1963	32.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
28 Apr 1986	55.0	Appointed	Bishop of Darwin, Australia
3 Jul 1986	55.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Darwin, Australia
3 Jul 2007	76.2	Retired	Bishop of Darwin, Australia
8 Aug 2014	83.3	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Darwin, Australia

MicroData Summary
Edmund John Patrick Collins
Bishop Edmund John Patrick Collins M.S.C.
(born 22 Mar 1931, died 8 Aug 2014)
Bishop Emeritus of Darwin

Ad Limina - March 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Braidwood
Ordained Bishop Darwin, Diocese of Darwin

a priest for 51.0 years
a bishop for 28.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Leonard Anthony Faulkner †
Archbishop of Adelaide
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Edward Francis Kelly, M.S.C. †
Bishop of Toowoomba
Bishop Eugene James Cuskelly, M.S.C. †
Titular Bishop of Altinum

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Leonard Anthony Faulkner † (1967)
Archbishop of Adelaide
Archbishop Matthew Beovich † (1940)
Archbishop of Adelaide
Archbishop Giovanni Panico † (1935)
Titular Archbishop of Iustiniana Prima
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 Christopher Alan Saunders (1996)
Bishop Daniel Eugene Hurley (1999)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 1131153126227324750004
WikiData: Q1286491

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
r: Bollettino, 3 Jul 2007
ob/c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144
d: CB, 9 Aug 2014
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 221, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 100, Number 8,662
ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 102, Additions/Corrections (front)

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