Bishop Joseph Anthony Ferrario †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Mar 1926		Born
19 May 1951	25.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Priests of Saint Sulpice
1968¹	41.8	Incardinated	Priest of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
8 Nov 1977	51.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
8 Nov 1977	51.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cusae
13 Jan 1978	51.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cusae
13 May 1982	56.1	Appointed	Bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
25 Jun 1982	56.3	Installed	Bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
12 Oct 1993	67.6	Retired	Bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
12 Dec 2003	77.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Joseph Anthony Ferrario
Bishop Joseph Anthony Ferrario
(born 3 Mar 1926, died 12 Dec 2003)
Bishop Emeritus of Honolulu

Event Place
Birth Place Scranton, PA, Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania
Ordained Priest St. Peter, Cathedral, Scranton, PA, Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop Honolulu, Diocese of Honolulu, Hawaii
Buried Place (Original) Hawaiian Memorial Park, Kaneohe, Diocese of Honolulu, Hawaii

a priest for 52.5 years
a bishop for 25.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop William Joseph Hafey †
Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop John Joseph Scanlan †
Bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop John Raphael Quinn †
Archbishop of San Francisco, California
Bishop James Clifford Timlin †
Titular Bishop of Gunugus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Joseph Scanlan † (1954)
Bishop of Honolulu, Hawaii
Archbishop John Joseph Mitty † (1926)
Archbishop of San Francisco, California
Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes † (1914)
Archbishop of New York, New York
John Murphy Cardinal Farley † (1895)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan † (1873)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Archbishop John McCloskey † (1844)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Bishop John Joseph Hughes † (1838)
Bishop of New York, New York
Bishop John Dubois † (1826)
Bishop of New York, New York
Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal, P.S.S. † (1817)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Lefebvre de Cheverus † (1810)
Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts
Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Archbishop of Ravenna
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 Daniel Francis Walsh (1981)
Archbishop Anthony Sablan Apuron, O.F.M. Cap. (1984)
Bishop John Quinn Weitzel, M.M. † (1986)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q6281083

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 173, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 46, Number 3,126
c1: CB, 15 May 2022

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