Archbishop Oscar Hugh Lipscomb †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Mobile, Alabama, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Sep 1931		Born
15 Jul 1956	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mobile-Birmingham, Alabama, USA
29 Jul 1980	48.8	Appointed	Archbishop of Mobile, Alabama, USA
16 Nov 1980	49.1	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Mobile, Alabama, USA
2 Apr 2008	76.5	Retired	Archbishop of Mobile, Alabama, USA
15 Jul 2020	88.8	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Mobile, Alabama, USA

MicroData Summary for Oscar Hugh Lipscomb
(VIAF: 14052460; WikiData: Q530308)
Archbishop Oscar Hugh Lipscomb (born 21 Sep 1931, died 15 Jul 2020) Archbishop Emeritus of Mobile

Ad Limina - December 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Mobile, Diocese of Mobile, Alabama
Ordained Priest Twelve Holy Apostles, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Municipal Auditorium, Mobile, Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama
Death Place Little Sisters of the Poor residence, Mobile, Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama

a priest for 64.0 years
a bishop for 39.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Luigi Traglia †
Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Palaestina
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Lawrence May †
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop William Benedict Friend †
Titular Bishop of Pomaria
Bishop Raymond William Lessard †
Bishop of Savannah, Georgia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Lawrence May † (1967)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
John Patrick Cardinal Cody † (1947)
Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois
Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter † (1933)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Joseph Chartrand † (1910)
Bishop of Indianapolis, Indiana
Archbishop Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Falconio, O.F.M. Ref. † (1892)
Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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:
Father Anthony James Corcoran, S.J. (1996)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Raymond James Boland † (1988)
Archbishop Thomas John Rodi (2001)
Bishop Joseph Nunzio Latino † (2003)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Raymond Gaydos (1997)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Mobile, Diocese of Mobile, Alabama
Ordained Priest	Twelve Holy Apostles, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Municipal Auditorium, Mobile, Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama
Death Place	Little Sisters of the Poor residence, Mobile, Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 2 Apr 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 63, Number 4,917
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 246, Necrology (back)
c1: CB, 18 May 2022

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