Bishop Lawrence Michael De Falco †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Amarillo, Texas, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Aug 1915		Born
11 Jun 1942	26.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Dallas, Texas, USA
16 Apr 1963	47.6	Appointed	Bishop of Amarillo, Texas, USA
30 May 1963	47.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Amarillo, Texas, USA
13 Jun 1963	47.8	Installed	Bishop of Amarillo, Texas, USA
28 Aug 1979	64.0	Resigned	Bishop of Amarillo, Texas, USA
22 Sep 1979	64.0	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Amarillo, Texas, USA

MicroData Summary for Lawrence Michael De Falco
(VIAF: 14148232; WikiData: Q2114889)
Bishop Lawrence Michael De Falco (born 25 Aug 1915, died 22 Sep 1979) Bishop Emeritus of Amarillo

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 McKeesport, PA, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop Saint Patrick, Co-Cathedral, Fort Worth, Diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
Death Place Amarillo, Diocese of Amarillo, Texas

a priest for 37.2 years
a bishop for 16.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Baptist Morris †
Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Thomas Kiely Gorman †
Bishop of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Francis Joseph Green †
Bishop of Tucson, Arizona
Bishop Albert Lewis Fletcher †
Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Thomas Kiely Gorman † (1931)
Bishop of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
Bishop John Joseph Cantwell † (1917)
Bishop of Los Angeles-San Diego, California
Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna † (1912)
Archbishop of San Francisco, California
Archbishop Giovanni Vincenzo Bonzano † (1912)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe † (1966)
Bishop Lawrence Preston Joseph Graves † (1969)
Bishop John Edward McCarthy † (1979)

Source(s):

c1: CB, 26 Feb 2015
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1963, Number 54

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