Bishop Raymond Conway Benjamin †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Townsville, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Feb 1925		Born
25 Jul 1949	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rockhampton, Australia
14 Feb 1984	58.9	Appointed	Bishop of Townsville, Australia
9 May 1984	59.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Townsville, Australia
18 Apr 2000	75.1	Retired	Bishop of Townsville, Australia
6 Mar 2016	91.0	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Townsville, Australia

MicroData Summary for Raymond Conway Benjamin
(WikiData: Q2134106)
Bishop Raymond Conway Benjamin (born 24 Feb 1925, died 6 Mar 2016) Bishop Emeritus of Townsville

Event Place
Birth Place Rockhampton
Ordained Bishop Dean Park Sound Shell, Townsville, Diocese of Townsville

a priest for 66.6 years
a bishop for 31.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Andrew Gerard Tynan †
Bishop of Rockhampton
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Francis Roberts Rush †
Archbishop of Brisbane
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Leonard Anthony Faulkner †
Coadjutor Archbishop of Adelaide
Archbishop Launcelot John Goody †
Archbishop Emeritus of Perth

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Francis Roberts Rush † (1961)
Archbishop of Brisbane
Archbishop Maximilien de Fürstenberg † (1949)
Titular Archbishop of Paltus
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Clemente Micara † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Rockhampton
Ordained Bishop	Dean Park Sound Shell, Townsville, Diocese of Townsville

Source(s):

c1: AustOceaniaBishops.org
d: CB, 7 Mar 2016
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 86, Number 7,205

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