Bishop Edward Kenneth Braxton

Bishop Emeritus of Belleville, Illinois, USA

Motto: Gaudium et Spes

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Jun 1944		Born
13 May 1970	25.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 Mar 1995	50.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
28 Mar 1995	50.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Macomades Rusticiana
17 May 1995	50.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Macomades Rusticiana
12 Dec 2000	56.4	Appointed	Bishop of Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
22 Feb 2001	56.6	Installed	Bishop of Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
15 Mar 2005	60.7	Appointed	Bishop of Belleville, Illinois, USA
22 Jun 2005	60.9	Installed	Bishop of Belleville, Illinois, USA
3 Apr 2020	75.7	Retired	Bishop of Belleville, Illinois, USA

MicroData Summary
Edward Kenneth Braxton
Bishop Edward Kenneth Braxton
(born 28 Jun 1944)
Bishop Emeritus of Belleville

Event Place
Birth Place Chicago, Archdiocese of Chicago, Illinois
Ordained Priest Saint Mary of the Lake, Seminary, Mundelein, Archdiocese of Chicago, Illinois
Ordained Bishop Saint Louis, Cathedral, Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Belleville.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
John Patrick Cardinal Cody †
Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop James Terry Steib, S.V.D.
Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee
Bishop Paul Albert Zipfel †
Titular Bishop of Walla Walla

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali (1985)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
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 Michael John Sheridan † (1997)
Archbishop Joseph Fred Naumann (1997)
Bishop Michael George McGovern (2020)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1292792

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 142, Number 12,553
r: Bollettino, 3 Apr 2020
op.loc: CB, 26 Oct 2022

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