Bishop William Leo Higi †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Lafayette in Indiana, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Aug 1933		Born
30 May 1959	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lafayette in Indiana, USA
7 Apr 1984	50.6	Appointed	Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana, USA
6 Jun 1984	50.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana, USA
12 May 2010	76.7	Retired	Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana, USA
3 Jan 2025	91.3	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Lafayette in Indiana, USA

MicroData Summary
William Leo Higi
Bishop William Leo Higi
(born 29 Aug 1933, died 3 Jan 2025)
Bishop Emeritus of Lafayette in Indiana

Ad Limina - May 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Anderson, Diocese of Fort Wayne, Indiana
Ordained Priest Immaculate Conception, Cathedral, Layfayette, Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana
Ordained Bishop Immaculate Conception, Cathedral, Layfayette, Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana
Death Place St. Anthony Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Layfayette, Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana
Buried Place (Original) St. Mary's, Cemetery, Layfayette, Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana

a priest for 65.5 years
a bishop for 40.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Joseph Carberry †
Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Edward Thomas O’Meara †
Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Raymond Joseph Gallagher †
Bishop Emeritus of Lafayette in Indiana
Bishop Joseph Robert Crowley †
Titular Bishop of Maraguia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Edward Thomas O’Meara † (1972)
Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana
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 Timothy Lawrence Doherty (2010)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1666975

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 12 May 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 85, Number 7,111
c1: CB, 17 May 2022
d: CB, 4 Jan 2025
buro.loc: CB, 7 Jan 2025

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