Bishop William Edward Murray †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Wollongong, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Feb 1920		Born
21 Jul 1945	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sydney, Australia
5 Jun 1975	55.3	Appointed	Bishop of Wollongong, Australia
21 Jul 1975	55.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Wollongong, Australia
12 Apr 1996	76.1	Retired	Bishop of Wollongong, Australia
21 Apr 2013	93.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Wollongong, Australia

MicroData Summary
William Edward Murray
Bishop William Edward Murray
(born 16 Feb 1920, died 21 Apr 2013)
Bishop Emeritus of Wollongong

Event Place
Birth Place Leichhardt
Ordained Bishop St. Francis Xavier, Wollongong, Diocese of Wollongong

a priest for 67.7 years
a bishop for 37.7 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 Priest:
Archbishop Peter Andrew Comensoli (1992)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Philip Edward Wilson † (1996)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q462703

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 126
d: CB, 22 Apr 2013
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 216, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 34, Number 2,075

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