Bishop Patrick Laurence Murphy †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Broken Bay, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Oct 1920		Born
22 Jul 1944	23.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sydney, Australia
20 Dec 1976	56.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia
20 Dec 1976	56.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Aquae in Numidia
22 Jan 1977	56.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Aquae in Numidia
8 Apr 1986	65.4	Appointed	Bishop of Broken Bay, Australia
28 May 1986	65.5	Installed	Bishop of Broken Bay, Australia
9 Jul 1996	75.6	Retired	Bishop of Broken Bay, Australia
18 Mar 2007	86.3	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Broken Bay, Australia

MicroData Summary
Patrick Laurence Murphy
Bishop Patrick Laurence Murphy
(born 28 Oct 1920, died 18 Mar 2007)
Bishop Emeritus of Broken Bay

Event Place
Birth Place Eastwood
Ordained Bishop St. Mary, Cathedral, Sydney, Archdiocese of Sydney

a priest for 62.6 years
a bishop for 30.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Norman Thomas Gilroy †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Consecrator:
James Darcy Cardinal Freeman †
Archbishop of Sydney
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Thomas Vincent Cahill †
Archbishop of Canberra (and Goulburn)
Archbishop James Patrick Carroll †
Titular Archbishop of Amasea

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

James Darcy Cardinal Freeman † (1957)
Archbishop of Sydney
Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy † (1935)
Archbishop of Sydney
Archbishop Filippo Bernardini † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Antiochia in Pisidia
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

Ordained Deacon:
Bishop Michael Fabian McCarthy (1977)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Michael John Malone (1995)
Bishop David Louis Walker (1996)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1728791

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 126
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 191, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 58, Number 4,289

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