Bishop Michael Joseph Bransfield

Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Sep 1943		Born	Philadelphia
15 May 1971	27.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
9 Dec 2004	61.3	Appointed	Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA
22 Feb 2005	61.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA

Ad Limina - January 2012: Bishop

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
John Joseph Cardinal Krol †
Principal Consecrator:
William Henry Cardinal Keeler
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Theodore Edgar Cardinal McCarrick
Bishop Bernard William Schmitt †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Michael Joseph Bransfield (2005)
William Henry Cardinal Keeler (1979)
Bishop Joseph Thomas Daley † (1964)
John Joseph Cardinal Krol † (1953)
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Timothy Christian Senior

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 178, Number 14,826

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