Bishop Donald Walter Trautman †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Jun 1936		Born
7 Apr 1962	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Buffalo, New York, USA
27 Feb 1985	48.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Buffalo, New York, USA
27 Feb 1985	48.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sassura
16 Apr 1985	48.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sassura
2 Jun 1990	53.9	Appointed	Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
16 Jul 1990	54.0	Installed	Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
31 Jul 2012	76.1	Retired	Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
26 Feb 2022	85.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

MicroData Summary
Donald Walter Trautman
Bishop Donald Walter Trautman
(born 24 Jun 1936, died 26 Feb 2022)
Bishop Emeritus of Erie

Ad Limina - September 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - December 2011: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Buffalo, Diocese of Buffalo, New York
Ordained Bishop St. Joseph, Cathedral, Buffalo, Diocese of Buffalo, New York
Death Place Saint Mary&rsquos; at Asbury Ridge, Erie, Diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania

a priest for 59.8 years
a bishop for 36.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Paulus Rusch †
Titular Bishop of Meloë in Isauria
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Edward Dennis Head †
Bishop of Buffalo, New York
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Bernard Joseph McLaughlin †
Titular Bishop of Motula
Bishop Stanislaus Joseph Brzana †
Bishop of Ogdensburg, New York

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Edward Dennis Head † (1970)
Bishop of Buffalo, New York
Terence James Cardinal Cooke † (1965)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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 Edward Michael Grosz (1990)
Bishop Lawrence Eugene Brandt † (2004)
Bishop Mark Leonard Bartchak (2011)
Bishop Lawrence Thomas Persico (2012)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/270392
VIAF: 89531259
WikiData: Q279390

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 31 Jul 2012
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 91, Number 7,731

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