Bishop Paul David Sirba †

Deceased

Bishop of Duluth, Minnesota, USA

Motto: Fiat Voluntas Tua

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Sep 1960		Born
31 May 1986	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
15 Oct 2009	49.1	Appointed	Bishop of Duluth, Minnesota, USA
14 Dec 2009	49.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Duluth, Minnesota, USA
1 Dec 2019	59.2	Died	Bishop of Duluth, Minnesota, USA

MicroData Summary
Paul David Sirba
Bishop Paul David Sirba
(born 2 Sep 1960, died 1 Dec 2019)
Bishop of Duluth

Ad Limina - March 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Minneapolis, MN, Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ordained Priest Saint Paul, Cathedral, Saint Paul, Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ordained Bishop Duluth Entertainment Convention Center Auditorium, Duluth, Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota
Death Place Duluth, Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota
Buried Place (Original) Calvary, Cemetery, Duluth, Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota

a priest for 33.5 years
a bishop for 9.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop John Robert Roach †
Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Clayton Nienstedt
Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Peter Forsyth Christensen
Bishop of Superior, Wisconsin
Bishop Lee Anthony Piché
Titular Bishop of Tamata

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Clayton Nienstedt (1996)
Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Adam Joseph Cardinal Maida (1984)
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
Archbishop Pio Laghi † (1969)
Titular Archbishop of Mauriana
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Andrew Harmon Cozzens (2013)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2059249

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 15 Oct 2009
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 200, Number 16,328
d: CB, 1 Dec 2019
loc: CB, 3 Dec 2019
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)
c1: CB, 8 Jun 2022
op.loc: CB, 2 Nov 2022

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