Archbishop John Joseph Kain †

Deceased

Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Motto: Pro Deo Et Patria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
31 May 1841		Born
2 Jul 1866	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
12 Feb 1875	33.6	Appointed	Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
23 May 1875	33.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
16 Jun 1893	52.0	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
16 Jun 1893	52.0	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Oxyrynchus
21 May 1895	53.9	Succeeded	Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
13 Oct 1903	62.3	Died	Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

MicroData Summary
John Joseph Kain
Archbishop John Joseph Kain
(born 31 May 1841, died 13 Oct 1903)
Archbishop of Saint Louis

Event Place
Birth Place Martinsburg, VA, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Ordained Priest Baltimore, MD, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Bishop St. Joseph, Cathedral, Wheeling, Diocese of Wheeling, West Virginia
Death Place Baltimore, MD, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Buried Place (Original) Calvary, Cemetery, Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri

a priest for 37.2 years
a bishop for 28.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Martin John Spalding †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Thomas Albert Andrew Becker †
Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware
Bishop James Gibbons †
Bishop of Richmond, Virginia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley † (1853)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Archbishop Gaetano Bedini † (1852)
Titular Archbishop of Thebae
Lodovico Cardinal Altieri † (1836)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Portico (Campitelli)
Pope Gregory XVI (1831)
(Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. †)
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Francis Gilfillan † (1895)
Principal Consecrator of:
John Joseph Cardinal Glennon † (1896)
Bishop John Francis Cunningham † (1898)
Bishop Frederick Charles Hopkins, S.J. † (1899)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop John Joseph Keane † (1878)
Bishop Alfred Allen Paul Curtis † (1886)
Bishop Leo Michael Haid (Hite), O.S.B. † (1888)
Bishop Augustine Van de Vyver † (1889)
Archbishop Placide Louis Chapelle † (1891)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Martinsburg, VA, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Ordained Priest	Baltimore, MD, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Bishop	St. Joseph, Cathedral, Wheeling, Diocese of Wheeling, West Virginia
Death Place	Baltimore, MD, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Buried Place (Original)	Calvary, Cemetery, Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri

External Link(s):

Find a Grave (Grave): 20564
Find a Grave (Cenotaph): 233271508
VIAF: 36655216
WikiData: Q434590

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 352, and Page 432
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 598
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1875, Number 32
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 11, Number 590, Ascendance
c1: CB, 13 May 2022

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