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Bishop William George McCloskey †

Deceased

Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky

Events

a priest for 56.9 years a bishop for 41.3 years

Principal Consecrator: Karl August Graf Cardinal von Reisach † Principal Co-Consecrators: Salvatore Cardinal Nobili Vitelleschi †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Bishop William George McCloskey † (1868) Karl August Graf Cardinal von Reisach † (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 Thomas Patrick Roger Foley † Principal Co-Consecrator of: Bishop Augustus Maria Bernard Anthony John Gebhard Toebbe † Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan † Bishop Petrus Pace † Bishop John Ambrose Watterson † Bishop Henry Joseph Richter † Archbishop Patrick William Riordan † Bishop Camillus Paul Maes † Bishop Maurice Francis Burke † Bishop Richard Scannell † Bishop James Ryan †

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