Archbishop Joseph Edward Kurtz

Archbishop Emeritus of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Aug 1946		Born
18 Mar 1972	25.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
26 Oct 1999	53.1	Appointed	Bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
8 Dec 1999	53.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
12 Jun 2007	60.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
15 Aug 2007	60.9	Installed	Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
24 Oct 2018	72.1	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Memphis, Tennessee, USA
2 Apr 2019	72.6	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Memphis, Tennessee, USA
8 Feb 2022	75.4	Retired	Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

MicroData Summary for Joseph Edward Kurtz
(WikiData: Q1706893)
Archbishop Joseph Edward Kurtz (born 18 Aug 1946) Archbishop Emeritus of Louisville

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

Event Place
Birth Place Shenandoah, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ordained Priest Saint Catharine of Siena, Cathedral, Allentown, Diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop Holiday Inn Convention Center, Knoxville, Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Louisville.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Joseph Mark McShea †
Bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo Higuera †
Titular Archbishop of Celene
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Thomas Cajetan Kelly, O.P. †
Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky
Bishop Edward Peter Cullen †
Bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo Higuera † (1974)
Titular Archbishop of Celene
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop William Francis Medley (2010)
Archbishop Charles Coleman Thompson (2011)
Bishop John Eric Stowe, O.F.M. Conv. (2015)
Bishop Joseph Mark Spalding (2018)
Bishop John Curtis Iffert (2021)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Ronald William Gainer (2003)
Bishop James Vann Johnston, Jr. (2008)
Bishop Herbert Armstrong Bevard (2008)
Bishop Richard Frank Stika (2009)

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 12 Jun 2007
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 157, Number 13,654
ab: Bollettino, 24 Oct 2018
r: Bollettino, 8 Feb 2022
op.loc: CB, 26 Oct 2022

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