Bishop John Patrick Murphy †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Jul 1909		Born
3 Jun 1934	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Port Elizabeth, South Africa
6 May 1972	62.7	Appointed	Bishop of Port Elizabeth, South Africa
28 Aug 1972	63.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Port Elizabeth, South Africa
21 Mar 1986	76.6	Retired	Bishop of Port Elizabeth, South Africa
18 Sep 1997	88.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Port Elizabeth, South Africa

MicroData Summary
John Patrick Murphy
Bishop John Patrick Murphy
(born 26 Jul 1909, died 18 Sep 1997)
Bishop Emeritus of Port Elizabeth

Event Place
Birth Place Belmullet
Ordained Bishop Feather Market Hall, Port Elizabeth, Diocese of Port Elizabeth

a priest for 63.2 years
a bishop for 25.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Owen Cardinal McCann †
Archbishop of Cape Town {Kaapstad}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Hugh Boyle †
Bishop of Johannesburg
Bishop Ernest Arthur Green †
Bishop Emeritus of Port Elizabeth

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Owen Cardinal McCann † (1950)
Archbishop of Cape Town {Kaapstad}
Archbishop Martin Lucas, S.V.D. † (1945)
Titular Archbishop of Adulis
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Michael Gower Coleman † (1986)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64746508

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 138
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 151, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 24, Number 1,348

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