Archbishop John Colburn Garner †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Pretoria, South Africa

Motto: Triticum In Horreum Congregare

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Sep 1907		Born
23 Dec 1933	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest
9 Apr 1948	40.5	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Pretoria, South Africa
9 Apr 1948	40.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tracula
31 May 1948	40.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tracula
11 Jan 1951	43.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa
17 May 1951	43.6	Appointed	Bishop of South Africa, Military
28 Apr 1975	67.5	Resigned	Archbishop of Pretoria, South Africa
26 Mar 1976	68.4	Resigned	Bishop of South Africa, Military
12 Jun 1993	85.7	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Pretoria, South Africa

MicroData Summary
John Colburn Garner
Archbishop John Colburn Garner
(born 29 Sep 1907, died 12 Jun 1993)
Archbishop Emeritus of Pretoria

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Qumbu, Vicariate Apostolic of Natal
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Cape Town, Vicariate Apostolic of Cape Town
Death Place Pretoria, Archdiocese of Pretoria

a priest for 59.4 years
a bishop for 45.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Franziskus Xaver Hennemann, S.A.C. †
Titular Bishop of Coptus
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Bernard Cornelius O’Riley †
Titular Bishop of Phoba
Bishop William Patrick Whelan, O.M.I. †
Titular Bishop of Legia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Franziskus Xaver Hennemann, S.A.C. † (1914)
Titular Bishop of Coptus
Bishop Heinrich Vieter, S.A.C. † (1905)
Titular Bishop of Paraetonium
Bishop Dominikus (Martin Karl) Willi, O. Cist. † (1898)
Bishop of Limburg
Bishop Paul Leopold Haffner † (1886)
Bishop of Mainz
Bishop Johannes Christian Roos † (1885)
Bishop of Limburg
Bishop Georg von Kopp † (1881)
Bishop of Fulda
Bishop Daniel Wilhelm Sommerwerk (Jacobi) † (1871)
Bishop of Hildesheim
Bishop Johannes Heinrich Beckmann † (1866)
Bishop of Osnabrück
Archbishop Paul Ludolf Melchers, S.J. † (1858)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Bishop Eduard Jakob Wedekin † (1850)
Bishop of Hildesheim
Johannes Cardinal von Geissel † (1837)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Joseph Maria Johann Nepomuk von Fraunberg † (1821)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Francesco Serra Cassano † (1818)
Titular Archbishop of Nicaea
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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 Consecrator of:
Archbishop George Francis Daniel (1975)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Owen Cardinal McCann † (1950)
Bishop Anton Reiterer, M.C.C.I. † (1956)
Archbishop Joseph Patrick Fitzgerald, O.M.I. † (1966)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64174357

Source(s):

c2+: CB
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 137
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1948, Number 60

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