Bishop Joseph Brendan Houlihan, S.P.S. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Eldoret

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Sep 1911		Born	Ballyferriter, Ireland
18 Mar 1937	25.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of St. Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions
29 Jan 1954	42.3	Appointed	Prefect of Eldoret, Kenya
19 Jul 1960	48.8	Appointed	Bishop of Eldoret, Kenya
20 Nov 1960	49.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Eldoret, Kenya
19 Oct 1970	59.1	Resigned	Bishop of Eldoret, Kenya
19 Oct 1970	59.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Chunavia
24 Apr 1971	59.6	Resigned	Titular Bishop of Chunavia
2 Dec 1975	64.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Eldoret, Kenya

a priest for 38.7 years
a bishop for 15.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Fulton John Sheen †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga †
Dominic Ignatius Cardinal Ekandem †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joseph Brendan Houlihan, S.P.S. † (1960)
Archbishop Fulton John Sheen † (1951)
Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, O.C.D. † (1930)
Basilio Cardinal Pompilj † (1913)
Antonio Cardinal Agliardi † (1884)
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
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 †

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