Bishop Christopher Alan Saunders

Bishop Emeritus of Broome, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Jan 1950		Born
28 Aug 1976	26.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Broome, Australia
3 Nov 1995	45.8	Appointed	Bishop of Broome, Australia
8 Feb 1996	46.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Broome, Australia
28 Aug 2021	71.6	Resigned	Bishop of Broome, Australia

MicroData Summary for Christopher Alan Saunders
(VIAF: 33145243827374441090; WikiData: Q1086467)
Bishop Christopher Alan Saunders (born 15 Jan 1950) Bishop Emeritus of Broome

Ad Limina - March 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Melbourne, Archdiocese of Melbourne
Ordained Bishop Shire Civic Centre, Broome, Diocese of Broome

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Broome.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Jobst, S.A.C. †
Bishop of Broome
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop John Jobst, S.A.C. †
Bishop Emeritus of Broome
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Justin Joseph Bianchini
Bishop of Geraldton
Bishop Edmund John Patrick Collins, M.S.C. †
Bishop of Darwin

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Jobst, S.A.C. † (1959)
Bishop Emeritus of Broome
Archbishop Romolo Carboni † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Sidon
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

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144, Number 12,684
r: Bollettino, 28 Aug 2021

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