Bishop William Russell Houck †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Jackson, Mississippi, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Jun 1926		Born
19 May 1951	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mobile, Alabama, USA
28 Mar 1979	52.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Jackson, Mississippi, USA
28 Mar 1979	52.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Alexanum
27 May 1979	52.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Alexanum
11 Apr 1984	57.7	Appointed	Bishop of Jackson, Mississippi, USA
5 Jun 1984	57.9	Installed	Bishop of Jackson, Mississippi, USA
3 Jan 2003	76.5	Retired	Bishop of Jackson, Mississippi, USA
9 Mar 2016	89.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Jackson, Mississippi, USA

MicroData Summary for William Russell Houck
(VIAF: 165175141; WikiData: Q2580433)
Bishop William Russell Houck (born 26 Jun 1926, died 9 Mar 2016) Bishop Emeritus of Jackson

Ad Limina - December 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - January 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Mobile, Diocese of Mobile, Alabama
Ordained Priest Immaculate Conception, Basilica, Mobile, Diocese of Mobile, Alabama
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 64.8 years
a bishop for 36.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Thomas Joseph Toolen †
Bishop of Mobile, Alabama
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy †
Archbishop Emeritus of Bangalore
Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo †
Titular Archbishop of Thagora

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Joseph Salvador Marino (1979)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Nunzio Latino † (2003)
Archbishop Joseph Salvador Marino (2008)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Mobile, Diocese of Mobile, Alabama
Ordained Priest	Immaculate Conception, Basilica, Mobile, Diocese of Mobile, Alabama
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Source(s):

d: CB, 9 Mar 2016
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 54, Number 3,916
c1: CB, 14 May 2022

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