Bishop Daniel Joseph Meagher

Bishop of Rockhampton, Australia

Motto: God Only God

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Nov 1961		Born
2 Jul 1995	33.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sydney, Australia
18 Nov 2021	60.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia
18 Nov 2021	60.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Pocofeltus
8 Dec 2021	60.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Pocofeltus
1 Apr 2026	64.3	Appointed	Bishop of Rockhampton, Australia
28 May 2026	64.5	Installed	Bishop of Rockhampton, Australia

MicroData Summary
Daniel Joseph Meagher
Bishop Daniel Joseph Meagher
(born 10 Nov 1961)
Bishop of Rockhampton

Event Place
Birth Place West Wyalong, Archdiocese of Canberra (and Goulburn)
Ordained Priest Saint Mary, Cathedral, Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney
Ordained Bishop Saint Mary, Cathedral, Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Rockhampton.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Edward Bede Cardinal Clancy †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Anthony Colin Joseph Fisher, O.P.
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Anthony Randazzo
Bishop of Broken Bay
Archbishop Christopher Charles Prowse
Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Anthony Colin Joseph Fisher, O.P. (2003)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop George Pell † (1987)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop Thomas Francis Little † (1973)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Archbishop of Melbourne
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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: Q109623539

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 18 Nov 2021
c2+: CB, 7 Dec 2021
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Number 20,825
ab: Bollettino, 1 Apr 2026

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