Bishop Gerard Joseph Hanna

Bishop Emeritus of Wagga Wagga, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Dec 1941		Born
9 Dec 1968	26.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Armidale, Australia
5 Feb 2002	60.1	Appointed	Bishop of Wagga Wagga, Australia
15 May 2002	60.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Wagga Wagga, Australia
12 Sep 2016	74.7	Resigned	Bishop of Wagga Wagga, Australia

MicroData Summary
Gerard Joseph Hanna
Bishop Gerard Joseph Hanna
(born 22 Dec 1941)
Bishop Emeritus of Wagga Wagga

Ad Limina - March 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - October 2011: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Armidale

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Wagga Wagga.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Henry Joseph Kennedy †
Titular Bishop of Simingi
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Francis Patrick Carroll †
Archbishop of Canberra (and Goulburn)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Luc Julian Matthys †
Bishop of Armidale
Archbishop George Pell †
Archbishop of Sydney

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Francis Patrick Carroll † (1967)
Archbishop of Canberra (and Goulburn)
Bishop Francis Augustin Henschke † (1937)
Bishop of Wagga Wagga
Archbishop Andrew Killian † (1924)
Archbishop of Adelaide
Archbishop Robert William Spence, O.P. † (1914)
Archbishop of Adelaide
Archbishop Patrick Joseph Clune, C.Ss.R. † (1911)
Archbishop of Perth
Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran † (1872)
Archbishop of Sydney
Paul Cardinal Cullen † (1850)
Archbishop of Dublin
Castruccio Cardinal Castracane degli Antelminelli † (1844)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Pope Gregory XVI (1831)
(Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. †)
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Michael Robert Kennedy (2012)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q730447

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 167, Number 14,185
r: Bollettino, 12 Sep 2016

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