Bishop Brian Vincent Finnigan

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brisbane, Australia

Titular Bishop of Rapidum

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Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Aug 1938		Born
23 May 1970	31.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ballarat, Australia
31 Jan 2002	63.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane, Australia
31 Jan 2002	63.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Rapidum
8 Apr 2002	63.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Rapidum
2 May 2011	72.6	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Toowoomba, Australia
11 Jul 2012	73.8	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Toowoomba, Australia
30 Dec 2015	77.3	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane, Australia

MicroData Summary
Brian Vincent Finnigan
Bishop Brian Vincent Finnigan
(born 25 Aug 1938)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brisbane

Ad Limina - October 2011: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Port Fairy, Diocese of Ballarat
Ordained Bishop Saint Stephen, Cathedral, Brisbane, Archdiocese of Brisbane

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Brisbane.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop James Patrick O’Collins †
Bishop of Ballarat
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Alexius Bathersby †
Archbishop of Brisbane
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Francesco Canalini
Titular Archbishop of Valeria
Archbishop Francis Patrick Carroll †
Archbishop of Canberra (and Goulburn)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Alexius Bathersby † (1986)
Archbishop of Brisbane
Archbishop Francis Roberts Rush † (1961)
Archbishop of Brisbane
Archbishop Maximilien de Fürstenberg † (1949)
Titular Archbishop of Paltus
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Clemente Micara † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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 Kenneth Michael Howell (2017)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q913188

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 167, Number 14,171
r: Bollettino, 30 Dec 2015

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