Bishop David Laurin Ricken

Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Nov 1952		Born
12 Sep 1980	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pueblo, Colorado, USA
14 Dec 1999	47.0	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
6 Jan 2000	47.1	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
26 Sep 2001	48.8	Succeeded	Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
9 Jul 2008	55.6	Appointed	Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
28 Aug 2008	55.8	Installed	Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA

MicroData Summary
David Laurin Ricken
Bishop David Laurin Ricken
(born 9 Nov 1952)
Bishop of Green Bay

Event Place
Birth Place Dodge City, KS, Diocese of Dodge City, Kansas
Ordained Priest Church, La Junta, Diocese of Pueblo, Colorado
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Green Bay.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Arthur Nicholas Tafoya †
Bishop of Pueblo, Colorado
Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re
Titular Archbishop of Forum Novum
Archbishop Marcello Zago, O.M.I. †
Titular Archbishop of Rusellae

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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:
Archbishop Paul Dennis Etienne (2009)
Bishop John Francis Doerfler (2014)
Bishop Daniel John Felton (2021)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1176329

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 9 Jul 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 157, Number 13,665

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