Bishop Charles Herman Helmsing †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Mar 1908		Born	Shrewsbury
10 Jun 1933	25.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
17 Mar 1949	41.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
17 Mar 1949	41.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Axomis
19 Apr 1949	41.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Axomis
24 Aug 1956	48.4	Appointed	Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
27 Jan 1962	53.8	Appointed	Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
27 Jun 1977	69.3	Resigned	Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
20 Dec 1993	85.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA

a priest for 60.5 years
a bishop for 44.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
John Patrick Cardinal Cody †
Bishop Leo John Steck †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Charles Herman Helmsing † (1949)
Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter † (1933)
Bishop Joseph Chartrand † (1910)
Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Cardinal Falconio, O.F.M. † (1892)
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Pope Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti † (1827)
Pope Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Castiglioni † (1800)
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Enrique Cardinal Enríquez † (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 Marion Francis Forst †
Bishop Joseph Vincent Sullivan †
Bishop George Kinzie Fitzsimons
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Glennon Patrick Flavin †
Archbishop Ignatius Jerome Strecker †
Bishop Edward Louis Fedders, M.M. †
Bishop Joseph Alphonse McNicholas †
Bishop Michael Francis McAuliffe †
William Wakefield Cardinal Baum
Bishop John Nicholas Wurm †
Bishop Joseph Hubert Hart
Bishop Lawrence James McNamara †

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