Bishop Leroy Theodore Matthiesen †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Amarillo, Texas, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Jun 1921		Born
10 Mar 1946	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Amarillo, Texas, USA
18 Mar 1980	58.7	Appointed	Bishop of Amarillo, Texas, USA
30 May 1980	58.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Amarillo, Texas, USA
21 Jan 1997	75.6	Retired	Bishop of Amarillo, Texas, USA
22 Mar 2010	88.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Amarillo, Texas, USA

MicroData Summary for Leroy Theodore Matthiesen
(VIAF: 16604522; WikiData: Q1688362)
Bishop Leroy Theodore Matthiesen (born 11 Jun 1921, died 22 Mar 2010) Bishop Emeritus of Amarillo

Event Place
Birth Place Olfen, Diocese of San Antonio, Texas
Ordained Priest Pontifical College Josephinum, Seminary, Worthington, OH
Ordained Bishop Civic Center, Amarillo, Diocese of Amarillo, Texas
Death Place Amarillo, Diocese of Amarillo, Texas
Buried Place (Original) Saint Boniface, Cemetery, Olfen, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas

a priest for 64.0 years
a bishop for 29.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani †
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Patrick Fernández Flores †
Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Louis Morkovsky †
Bishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas
Bishop Thomas Joseph Drury †
Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Patrick Fernández Flores † (1970)
Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas
Archbishop Luigi Raimondi † (1954)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, O.C.D. † (1930)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Basilio Cardinal Pompilj † (1913)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Antonio Cardinal Agliardi † (1884)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Michael Jarboe Sheehan † (1983)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Olfen, Diocese of San Antonio, Texas
Ordained Priest	Pontifical College Josephinum, Seminary, Worthington, OH
Ordained Bishop	Civic Center, Amarillo, Diocese of Amarillo, Texas
Death Place	Amarillo, Diocese of Amarillo, Texas
Buried Place (Original)	Saint Boniface, Cemetery, Olfen, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 60, Number 4,576

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