Bishop Leo Aloysius Pursley †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Mar 1902		Born
11 Jun 1927	25.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
18 Jul 1950	48.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
18 Jul 1950	48.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Hadrianopolis in Pisidia
19 Sep 1950	48.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Hadrianopolis in Pisidia
21 Feb 1955	52.9	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
29 Dec 1956	54.7	Appointed	Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
26 Feb 1957	54.9	Installed	Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
24 Aug 1976	74.4	Resigned	Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA
15 Nov 1998	96.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, USA

MicroData Summary for Leo Aloysius Pursley
(VIAF: 722156677150833770003; WikiData: Q15629578)
Bishop Leo Aloysius Pursley (born 12 Mar 1902, died 15 Nov 1998) Bishop Emeritus of Fort Wayne-South Bend

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Event Place
Birth Place Hartford City, Diocese of Fort Wayne, Indiana
Ordained Priest Fort Wayne, Diocese of Fort Wayne, Indiana
Ordained Bishop Immaculate Conception, Cathedral, Fort Wayne, Diocese of Fort Wayne, Indiana
Death Place Fort Wayne, Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana

a priest for 71.4 years
a bishop for 48.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Francis Noll †
Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani †
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Francis Noll †
Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana
Bishop Joseph Mary Marling, C.Pp.S. †
Titular Bishop of Thasus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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 Alphonsus Augustus Sowada, O.S.C. † (1958)
Bishop Felipe de Jesús Estévez (1970)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas Joseph Danehy, M.M. † (1953)
Bishop Andrew Gregory Grutka † (1957)
Bishop Juan de Dios López de Victoria † (1963)
Bishop Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe † (1966)
Bishop Joseph Robert Crowley † (1971)

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 154, Necrology (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1950, Number 71
c1: CB, 16 May 2022

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