Bishop Paul Vincent Donovan †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Sep 1924		Born
20 May 1950	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lansing, Michigan, USA
15 Jun 1971	46.7	Appointed	Bishop of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
21 Jul 1971	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
22 Nov 1994	70.2	Retired	Bishop of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
27 Apr 2011	86.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA

MicroData Summary
Paul Vincent Donovan
Bishop Paul Vincent Donovan
(born 1 Sep 1924, died 27 Apr 2011)
Bishop Emeritus of Kalamazoo

Event Place
Birth Place Bernard, IA
Ordained Priest St. Mary's, Cathedral, Lansing, Diocese of Lansing, Michigan
Ordained Bishop Saint Augustin, Cathedral, Kalamazoo, Diocese of Kalamazoo, Michigan

a priest for 60.9 years
a bishop for 39.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Joseph Henry Albers †
Bishop of Lansing, Michigan
Principal Consecrator:
John Francis Cardinal Dearden †
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alexander Mieceslaus Zaleski †
Bishop of Lansing, Michigan
Bishop Michael Joseph Green †
Bishop of Reno, Nevada

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

John Francis Cardinal Dearden † (1948)
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop James Stephen Sullivan † (1972)
Bishop James Albert Murray † (1998)
Bishop Robert Charles Morlino † (1999)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 2088154387336830970004
WikiData: Q1418510

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 110, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 208, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 17, Number 874

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