Bishop Denis Nulty

Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Jun 1963		Born
12 Jun 1988	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Meath, Ireland
7 May 2013	49.9	Appointed	Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland
4 Aug 2013	50.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland
2 Feb 2021	57.6	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Ossory, Ireland
22 Jan 2023	59.6	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Ossory, Ireland

MicroData Summary
Denis Nulty
Bishop Denis Nulty
(born 7 Jun 1963)
Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin

Ad Limina - January 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Slane, County Meath, Diocese of Meath
Ordained Priest Saint Patrick, Church, Slane, County Meath, Diocese of Meath
Ordained Bishop Assumption, Cathedral, Carlow, Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Michael Smith
Titular Bishop of Leges
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
Archbishop of Dublin
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Charles John Brown
Titular Archbishop of Aquileia
Bishop Michael Smith
Bishop of Meath

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin (1999)
Archbishop of Dublin
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 Paul Dempsey (2020)
Bishop Niall Coll (2023)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q12955897

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 7 May 2013
ob: CB, 9 May 2013
c2+: CB, 15 Jul 2013
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 215, Number 17,845

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