FORMER BISHOPS OF SAN DIEGO



Most Reverend Charles F. Buddy

  • Ordained: September 19, 1914

  • Appointed First Bishop of San Diego: October 31, 1936

  • Consecrated: December 21, 1936

  • Installed: February 3, 1937

  • Died: March 6, 1966

Most Reverend Francis J. Furey

  • Ordained: March 15, 1930

  • Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia: August 24, 1960

  • Consecrated: December 22, 1960

  • Appointed Coadjutor and Apostolic Administrator of San Diego: July 25, 1963

  • Succeeded as Second Bishop of San Diego: March 6, 1966

  • Appointed as Archbishop of San Antonio: June 4, 1969

  • Died: April 23, 1979

Most Reverend Leo T. Maher

  • Ordained: December 18, 1943

  • Appointed First Bishop of Santa Rosa: February 21, 1962

  • Consecrated: April 5, 1962

  • Appointed Third Bishop of San Diego: August 27, 1969

  • Installed: October 4, 1969

  • Retired: July 10, 1990

  • Died: February 23, 1991

FORMER AUXILIARY BISHOPS OF SAN DIEGO

Most Reverend Richard H. Ackerman, C.S.Sp.

  • Ordained: August 28, 1926

  • Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego: April 6, 1956

  • Consecrated: May 22, 1956

  • Appointed Seventh Bishop of Covington: April 6, 1960

  • Retired: November 28, 1978

  • Died: November 18, 1992

Most Reverend John R. Quinn

  • Ordained: July 19, 1953

  • Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego: October 21, 1967

  • Consecrated: December 12, 1967

  • Appointed Fifth Bishop of Oklahoma and Tulsa: November 18, 1971

  • Appointed Archbishop of Oklahoma City: December 13, 1972

  • Installed as Archbishop of Oklahoma City: February 6, 1973

  • Appointed Archbishop of San Francisco: February 22, 1977

  • Installed as Archbishop of San Francisco: April 26, 1977

  • Resigned as Archbishop of San Francisco: December 27, 1995

Most Reverend Gilbert E. Chávez

  • Ordained: March 19, 1960

  • Appointed Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego: April 19, 1974

  • Consecrated: June 21, 1974

  • Retired: July 1, 2007