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Bishop Christopher Edward Byrne †

Deceased

Bishop of Galveston, Texas

Events

a priest for 58.5 years a bishop for 31.4 years

Principal Consecrator: John Joseph Cardinal Glennon † Principal Co-Consecrators: Bishop Thomas Francis Lillis † Bishop John Baptist Morris †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Bishop Christopher Edward Byrne † (1918) John Joseph Cardinal Glennon † (1896) Archbishop John Joseph Kain † (1875) Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley † (1853) Gaetano Cardinal Bedini † (1852) Lodovico Cardinal Altieri † (1836) Pope Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. † (1831) Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786) Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760) 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 Consecrator of: Bishop Louis Joseph Reicher † Principal Co-Consecrator of: Bishop Francis Gilfillan † Archbishop Rudolph Aloysius Gerken † Archbishop Paul Clarence Schulte † Bishop Wendelin Joseph Nold †

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