Bishop Laurence Forristal †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Ossory, Ireland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Jun 1931		Born
21 Dec 1955	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ossory, Ireland
3 Dec 1979	48.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin, Ireland
3 Dec 1979	48.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Rotdon
20 Jan 1980	48.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Rotdon
30 Jun 1981	50.0	Appointed	Bishop of Ossory, Ireland
14 Sep 2007	76.2	Retired	Bishop of Ossory, Ireland
10 Oct 2018	87.3	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Ossory, Ireland

MicroData Summary
Laurence Forristal
Bishop Laurence Forristal
(born 5 Jun 1931, died 10 Oct 2018)
Bishop Emeritus of Ossory

Ad Limina - October 2006: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Jerpoint Church, Thomastown, Diocese of Ossory
Ordained Bishop St. Andrew, Church, Dublin, Archdiocese of Dublin
Death Place St. Luke's, Hospital, Kilkenny

a priest for 62.8 years
a bishop for 38.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Dermot Joseph Ryan †
Archbishop of Dublin
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi †
Titular Archbishop of Binda
Bishop Joseph A. Carroll †
Titular Bishop of Quaestoriana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Dermot Joseph Ryan † (1972)
Archbishop of Dublin
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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 Laurence Ryan † (1984)
Bishop Martin Drennan † (1997)
Bishop Raymond W. Field (1997)
Bishop Séamus Freeman, S.A.C. † (2007)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1348649

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 14 Sep 2007
d: CB, 10 Oct 2018
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 61, Number 4,685

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