Bishop John Francis Norton †

Deceased

Bishop of Bathurst, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Jan 1891		Born
20 Jun 1915	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bathurst, Australia
8 Mar 1926	35.1	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Bathurst, Australia
8 Mar 1926	35.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Lunda
18 Apr 1926	35.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lunda
3 Apr 1928	37.1	Succeeded	Bishop of Bathurst, Australia
20 Jun 1963	72.3	Died	Bishop of Bathurst, Australia

MicroData Summary
John Francis Norton
Bishop John Francis Norton
(born 30 Jan 1891, died 20 Jun 1963)
Bishop of Bathurst

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Lucan, Ireland

a priest for 48.0 years
a bishop for 37.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop John Mary Harty †
Archbishop of Cashel (-Emly)
Principal Consecrator:
Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.Ss.R. †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani †
Titular Archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria
Bishop Michael O’Farrell, C.M. †
Bishop of Bathurst

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.Ss.R. † (1918)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop John Joseph Scanlan † (1930)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Alfred Joseph Gummer † (1942)
Archbishop James Patrick Carroll † (1954)
Bishop Ignatius John Doggett, O.F.M. † (1957)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 1873156374126807710007
WikiData: Q64763828

Source(s):

c1+: AustOceaniaBishops.org
ob/s/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 112, Additions/Corrections (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1926, Number 17

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