Bishop Edward Dennis Head †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Buffalo, New York, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Aug 1919		Born
27 Jan 1945	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of New York, New York, USA
27 Jan 1970	50.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of New York, New York, USA
27 Jan 1970	50.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Árd Sratha
19 Mar 1970	50.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Árd Sratha
23 Jan 1973	53.4	Appointed	Bishop of Buffalo, New York, USA
19 Mar 1973	53.6	Installed	Bishop of Buffalo, New York, USA
18 Apr 1995	75.7	Retired	Bishop of Buffalo, New York, USA
29 Mar 2005	85.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Buffalo, New York, USA

MicroData Summary for Edward Dennis Head
(WikiData: Q5342494)
Bishop Edward Dennis Head (born 5 Aug 1919, died 29 Mar 2005) Bishop Emeritus of Buffalo

Event Place
Birth Place White Plains
Ordained Bishop St. Patrick, Cathedral, New York, Archdiocese of New York, New York

a priest for 60.1 years
a bishop for 35.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman †
Archbishop of New York, New York
Principal Consecrator:
Terence James Cardinal Cooke †
Archbishop of New York, New York
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop John Joseph Maguire †
Titular Archbishop of Tabalta
Bishop Edwin Bernard Broderick †
Bishop of Albany, New York

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Terence James Cardinal Cooke † (1965)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Donald Walter Trautman † (1985)
Bishop Edward Michael Grosz (1990)

Event	Place
Birth Place	White Plains
Ordained Bishop	St. Patrick, Cathedral, New York, Archdiocese of New York, New York

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 183, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 9, Number 455
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 81, Deceased Cardinals (back)

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