Bishop John Bosco MacDonald

Bishop of Clifton, England, Great Britain

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Jul 1963		Born
6 Jul 1991	27.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Clifton, England, Great Britain
14 Mar 2024	60.6	Appointed	Bishop of Clifton, England, Great Britain
8 May 2024	60.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Clifton, England, Great Britain

MicroData Summary
John Bosco MacDonald
Bishop John Bosco MacDonald
(born 21 Jul 1963)
Bishop of Clifton

Event Place
Birth Place Bath, Somerset, Diocese of Clifton, England
Ordained Priest St. John the Evangelist, Church, Bath, Somerset, Diocese of Clifton, England
Ordained Bishop Saints Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Bristol, Diocese of Clifton, England

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Clifton.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Mervyn Alban Alexander †
Bishop of Clifton, England
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Bernard Longley
Archbishop of Birmingham, England
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Declan Ronan Lang
Bishop Emeritus of Clifton, England
Bishop Peter Gwilym Collins
Bishop of East Anglia, England

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Bernard Longley (2003)
Archbishop of Birmingham, England
Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor † (1977)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Archbishop Michael George Bowen † (1970)
Archbishop of Southwark, England
Archbishop Domenico Enrici † (1955)
Titular Archbishop of Ancusa
Archbishop St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q124844043

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 14 Mar 2024
loc: CB, 14 Mar 2024
c1/loc: CL, 14 Mar 2024
ob: CB, 22 Mar 2024
c2+: CB, 8 May 2024
bp: CL, 3 Aug 2024
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 260, Number 21,483

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