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Bishop Theophile Meerschaert †

Deceased

Bishop of Oklahoma

Events

a priest for 52.2 years a bishop for 32.5 years

Principal Consecrator: Archbishop Francis August Anthony Joseph Janssens † Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana Principal Co-Consecrators: Bishop Edward Fitzgerald † Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas Bishop Thomas Heslin † Bishop of Natchez, Mississippi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Archbishop Francis August Anthony Joseph Janssens † (1881) Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana Archbishop James Gibbons † (1868) Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland Archbishop Martin John Spalding † (1848) Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810) Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky Archbishop John Carroll † (1790) Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756) Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama) Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732) Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730) Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721) Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685) Cardinal-Bishop of Albano Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670) Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666) Archbishop of Ravenna 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 † Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia

Principal Co-Consecrator of: Archbishop Francisco de Paula Barnada y Aguilar † (1899) Archbishop James Herbert Blenk, S.M. † (1899) Bishop Ferdinand Brossart † (1916) Archbishop Arthur Jerome Drossaerts † (1918) Bishop Jules Benjamin Jeanmard † (1918)