Bishop Hilton Forrest Deakin †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia

Titular Bishop of Murthlacum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Nov 1932		Born
27 Jul 1958	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Melbourne, Australia
30 Dec 1992	60.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia
30 Dec 1992	60.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Murthlacum
3 Mar 1993	60.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Murthlacum
13 Nov 2007	75.0	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Australia
28 Sep 2022	89.8	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne, Australia

MicroData Summary
Hilton Forrest Deakin
Bishop Hilton Forrest Deakin
(born 13 Nov 1932, died 28 Sep 2022)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Melbourne

Ad Limina - March 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Seymour
Ordained Bishop St. Patrick, Cathedral, Melbourne, Archdiocese of Melbourne
Death Place Justin Villa Aged Care, Balwyn

a priest for 64.1 years
a bishop for 29.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Justin Daniel Simonds †
Titular Archbishop of Antinoë
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Thomas Francis Little †
Archbishop of Melbourne
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Joseph Peter O’Connell †
Titular Bishop of Sanctus Germanus
Bishop Eric Gerard Perkins †
Titular Bishop of Verrona

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Thomas Francis Little † (1973)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Denis James Hart (1997)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1618937

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
r: Bollettino, 13 Nov 2007
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 133, Number 12,004
d: CB, 28 Sep 2022

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