Bishop Joseph Victor Adamec †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Aug 1935		Born
3 Jul 1960	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Nitra, Slovakia
12 Mar 1987	51.5	Appointed	Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
20 May 1987	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
14 Jan 2011	75.4	Retired	Bishop of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
20 Mar 2019	83.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA

MicroData Summary for Joseph Victor Adamec
(VIAF: 2882153239460729450006; WikiData: Q1708139)
Bishop Joseph Victor Adamec (born 13 Aug 1935, died 20 Mar 2019) Bishop Emeritus of Altoona-Johnstown

Ad Limina - September 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Bannister, MI
Ordained Bishop Blessed Sacrament, Cathedral, Altoona, Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Buried Place (Original) Crypt Chapel, Blessed Sacrament, Cathedral, Altoona, Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania

a priest for 58.7 years
a bishop for 31.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Luigi Cardinal Traglia †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Andrea della Valle
Principal Consecrator:
Jozef Cardinal Tomko †
Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop James John Hogan †
Bishop Emeritus of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Bishop Francis Frederick Reh †
Bishop Emeritus of Saginaw, Michigan

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jozef Cardinal Tomko † (1979)
Cardinal-Deacon of Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 Mark Leonard Bartchak (2011)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Bannister, MI
Ordained Bishop	Blessed Sacrament, Cathedral, Altoona, Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Buried Place (Original)	Crypt Chapel, Blessed Sacrament, Cathedral, Altoona, Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 14 Jan 2011
d: CB, 21 Mar 2019
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 103, Number 8,980

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