Bishop John Joseph O’Gorman, C.S.Sp. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Sierra Leone

Titular Bishop of Amastris

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 May 1866		Born	Hacketstown, Ireland
8 Oct 1889	23.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
15 Aug 1890	24.3	Professed	Priest of Congregation of the Holy Spirit
14 Sep 1903	37.3	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Sierra Leone
14 Sep 1903	37.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Amastris
28 Oct 1903	37.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Amastris
23 Sep 1932	66.4	Resigned	Vicar Apostolic of Sierra Leone
13 Apr 1935	68.9	Died	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Sierra Leone

a priest for 45.5 years
a bishop for 31.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Patrick John Ryan †
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Francis Regis Canevin †
Titular Bishop of Sabrata
Bishop Edmond Francis Prendergast †
Titular Bishop of Scilium

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Patrick John Ryan † (1872)
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick † (1841)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Joseph Rosati, C.M. † (1824)
Apostolic Administrator of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Louis-Guillaume-Valentin Dubourg, P.S.S. † (1815)
Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas (Saint Louis of New Orleans)
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Bishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Bishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrique Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Pierre Rossillon, M.S.F.S. † (1919)
Archbishop James Leen, C.S.Sp. † (1925)

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1931
b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1933
d: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1936
op/ob: Annuaire Pontifical Catholique, Year 1932
c2+: CB
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 9, Page 50
b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1903, Number 50