Bishop Alfred Joseph Gummer †

Deceased

Bishop of Geraldton, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Mar 1899		Born
31 Mar 1923	24.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bathurst, Australia
24 Feb 1942	42.9	Appointed	Bishop of Geraldton, Australia
19 Mar 1942	43.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Geraldton, Australia
5 Apr 1962	63.0	Died	Bishop of Geraldton, Australia

MicroData Summary
Alfred Joseph Gummer
Bishop Alfred Joseph Gummer
(born 18 Mar 1899, died 5 Apr 1962)
Bishop of Geraldton

Event Place
Birth Place Perthville
Ordained Bishop Bathurst, Diocese of Bathurst

a priest for 39.0 years
a bishop for 20.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Giuseppe Palica †
Titular Archbishop of Philippi
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Norman Thomas Gilroy †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Francis Norton †
Bishop of Bathurst
Bishop James Patrick O’Collins †
Bishop of Ballarat

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Norman Thomas Gilroy † (1935)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop Filippo Bernardini † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Antiochia in Pisidia
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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 Consecrator of:
Archbishop Launcelot John Goody † (1951)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Bryan Gallagher † (1952)
Bishop John Joseph Rafferty † (1955)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q16000267

Source(s):

c134: AustOceaniaBishops.org
ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1942, Number 17
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 43, Number 2,852

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