Bishop Christian Heribert Riesbeck, C.C.

Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Motto: Evangelii Gaudium

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Feb 1970		Born
12 Oct 1996	26.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2003²	32.9	Incardinated	Priest of Companions of the Cross
7 Jan 2014	43.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
7 Jan 2014	43.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tipasa in Numidia
19 Mar 2014	44.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tipasa in Numidia
15 Oct 2019	49.6	Appointed	Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
9 Dec 2019	49.8	Installed	Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Christian Heribert Riesbeck
Bishop Christian Heribert Riesbeck C.C.
(born 7 Feb 1970)
Bishop of Saint John, New Brunswick

Ad Limina - April 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Montréal, Archdiocese of Montréal, Québec
Ordained Bishop Notre-Dame, Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa, Archdiocese of Ottawa, Ontario

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Saint John, New Brunswick.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Marcel André Joseph Gervais †
Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J.
Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Marcel André Joseph Gervais †
Archbishop Emeritus of Ottawa, Ontario
Archbishop Paul-André Durocher
Archbishop of Gatineau, Québec

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J. (1995)
Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario
Archbishop Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic † (1976)
Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario
Archbishop Philip Francis Pocock † (1944)
Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario
Archbishop Ildebrando Antoniutti † (1936)
Titular Archbishop of Synnada in Phrygia
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Scott Cal McCaig, C.C. (2016)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q15605022

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 7 Jan 2014
ob/c2: CB, 7 Jan 2014
c34: CB, 21 Jan 2014
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 217, Number 18,114
ab: Bollettino, 15 Oct 2019
i: CB, 16 Oct 2019

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