Bishop Thomas McGovern †

Deceased

Bishop of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Apr 1832		Born	Swanlinbar, Ireland
27 Dec 1861	29.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 Dec 1887	55.7	Appointed	Bishop of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
11 Mar 1888	55.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
25 Jul 1898	66.3	Died	Bishop of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

a priest for 36.6 years
a bishop for 10.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop James Frederick Bryan Wood †
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop William O'Hara †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Richard Gilmour †
Bishop John Ambrose Watterson †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Thomas McGovern † (1888)
Bishop William O'Hara † (1868)
Archbishop James Frederick Bryan Wood † (1857)
Archbishop John Baptist Purcell † (1833)
Archbishop James Whitfield † (1828)
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas Francis Brennan †
Bishop Michael John Hoban †

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