Bishop John Etheridge, C.P. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Oct 1935		Born
13 Jan 1971	35.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Passion
24 Apr 1980	44.5	Appointed	Bishop of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea
12 Aug 1980	44.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea
7 Feb 1989	53.3	Resigned	Bishop of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea
14 Aug 2002	66.8	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea

MicroData Summary
John Etheridge
Bishop John Etheridge C.P.
(born 2 Oct 1935, died 14 Aug 2002)
Bishop Emeritus of Vanimo

Event Place
Birth Place Adelaide, Archdiocese of Adelaide, Australia
Ordained Bishop Holy Cross, Cathedral, Vanimo, Diocese of Vanimo
Death Place Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia

a priest for 31.5 years
a bishop for 22.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Herman To Paivu †
Archbishop of Port Moresby
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Leo Clement Andrew Arkfeld, S.V.D. †
Archbishop of Madang
Bishop Louis Vangeke, M.S.C. †
Bishop Emeritus of Bereina

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Herman To Paivu † (1974)
Archbishop of Port Moresby
Archbishop Johannes Höhne, M.S.C. † (1963)
Archbishop of Rabaul
Bishop Joseph Höffner † (1962)
Bishop of Münster
Bishop Matthias Wehr † (1951)
Bishop of Trier
Archbishop Aloisius Joseph Muench † (1935)
Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q18812832

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 169, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 82, Number 6,733

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