Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. †

Deceased

Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Nov 1763		Born	Contournat, France
1 Jun 1788	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Priests of St. Sulpice
8 Apr 1808	44.4	Appointed	Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
4 Nov 1810	47.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
7 May 1832	68.5	Resigned	Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
17 Mar 1833	69.4	Appointed	Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
11 Feb 1850	86.3	Died	Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

a priest for 61.7 years
a bishop for 39.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Carroll †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Cardinal Lefebvre de Cheverus †
Bishop Michael Francis Egan, O.F.M. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
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 John Baptist Mary David, P.S.S. †
Bishop Edward Dominic Fenwick, O.P. †
Archbishop James Whitfield †
Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick †
Bishop Guy Ignatius Chabrat, P.S.S. †
Bishop Simon William Gabriel Bruté de Rémur †
Archbishop Martin John Spalding †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Samuel Eccleston, P.S.S. †
Assisted:
Bishop Michael Francis Egan, O.F.M. †

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