Bishop John Walter Flesey

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Newark, New Jersey, USA

Titular Bishop of Allegheny

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Aug 1942		Born
31 May 1969	26.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Newark, New Jersey, USA
21 May 2004	61.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
21 May 2004	61.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Allegheny
4 Aug 2004	61.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Allegheny
16 Oct 2017	75.1	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA

MicroData Summary
John Walter Flesey
Bishop John Walter Flesey
(born 6 Aug 1942)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Newark

Ad Limina - September 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - November 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Jersey City, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey
Ordained Priest Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Newark, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey
Ordained Bishop Sacred Heart, Cathedral Basilica, Newark, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Newark.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Thomas Aloysius Boland †
Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Joseph Myers †
Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Michael Angelo Saltarelli †
Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware
Bishop Arthur Joseph Serratelli
Bishop of Paterson, New Jersey

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Joseph Myers † (1987)
Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey
Bishop Edward William O’Rourke † (1971)
Bishop of Peoria, Illinois
John Patrick Cardinal Cody † (1947)
Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois
Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter † (1933)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Joseph Chartrand † (1910)
Bishop of Indianapolis, Indiana
Archbishop Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Falconio, O.F.M. Ref. † (1892)
Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Gregory James Studerus (2020)
Bishop Elias Richard G. Lorenzo, O.S.B. (2020)
Bishop Michael Arsenio Saporito (2020)
Bishop Pedro Bismarck Chau (2025)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 88873570
WikiData: Q1702098

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 176, Number 14,666
r: Bollettino, 16 Oct 2017
c1: CB, 18 May 2022
op.loc: CB, 28 Oct 2022

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