Bishop John Joseph Sullivan †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA

Motto: Come Lord Jesus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Jul 1920		Born
23 Sep 1944	24.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
25 Jul 1972	52.0	Appointed	Bishop of Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
19 Sep 1972	52.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
21 Sep 1972	52.2	Installed	Bishop of Grand Island, Nebraska, USA
27 Jun 1977	56.9	Appointed	Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
17 Aug 1977	57.1	Installed	Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
22 Jun 1993	72.9	Retired	Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
11 Feb 2001	80.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA

MicroData Summary
John Joseph Sullivan
Bishop John Joseph Sullivan
(born 5 Jul 1920, died 11 Feb 2001)
Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City-Saint Joseph

Event Place
Birth Place Horton, KS
Ordained Priest Cathedral, Oklahoma City, Diocese of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma
Ordained Bishop Civic Center, Tulsa, Diocese of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma

a priest for 56.3 years
a bishop for 28.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Francis Clement Kelley †
Bishop of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop John Raphael Quinn †
Bishop of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Lawrence May †
Bishop of Mobile, Alabama
Bishop Charles Albert Buswell †
Bishop of Pueblo, Colorado

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Raphael Quinn † (1967)
Bishop of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma
Archbishop Luigi Raimondi † (1954)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, O.C.D. † (1930)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Basilio Cardinal Pompilj † (1913)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Antonio Cardinal Agliardi † (1884)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Prefect of the Congregation for Propagation of the Faith
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Lawrence James McNamara † (1978)
Archbishop Jerome George Hanus, O.S.B. (1987)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 1704933
WikiData: Q6242253

Source(s):

d: CB
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 166, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 19, Number 989
c1: CB, 14 May 2022

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