Bishop Joseph Vincent Sullivan †

Deceased

Bishop of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Graphics images used by permission of Diocese of Baton Rouge

Motto: Serviam

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Aug 1919		Born
1 Jun 1946	26.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kansas City, Missouri, USA
4 Mar 1967	47.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
4 Mar 1967	47.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Thagamuta
3 Apr 1967	47.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thagamuta
8 Aug 1974	54.9	Appointed	Bishop of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
4 Sep 1982	63.0	Died	Bishop of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

MicroData Summary
Joseph Vincent Sullivan
Bishop Joseph Vincent Sullivan
(born 15 Aug 1919, died 4 Sep 1982)
Bishop of Baton Rouge

Event Place
Birth Place Kansas City, Diocese of Kansas City, Missouri
Ordained Priest Kansas City, Diocese of Kansas City, Missouri

a priest for 36.2 years
a bishop for 15.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Edwin Vincent O’Hara †
Bishop of Kansas City, Missouri
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Charles Herman Helmsing †
Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop John Patrick Cody †
Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois
Bishop Joseph Mary Marling, C.Pp.S. †
Bishop of Jefferson City, Missouri

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Charles Herman Helmsing † (1949)
Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri
Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter † (1933)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Joseph Chartrand † (1910)
Bishop of Indianapolis, Indiana
Archbishop Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Falconio, O.F.M. Ref. † (1892)
Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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:
William Wakefield Cardinal Baum † (1970)
Bishop George Kinzie Fitzsimons † (1975)
Bishop Stanley Joseph Ott † (1976)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 26255169
WikiData: Q15436386

Source(s):

c1: CB, 9 Feb 2018

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