Bishop William O’Hara †

Deceased

Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Apr 1816		Born	Dungiven, Ireland
21 Dec 1842	26.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Mar 1868	51.9	Appointed	Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
12 Jul 1868	52.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Feb 1899	82.8	Died	Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA

First Vatican Council: Council Father

a priest for 56.1 years
a bishop for 30.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni †
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Frederick Bryan Wood †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop William Henry Elder †
Bishop Patrick Neeson Lynch †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas McGovern †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop James O’Connor †
Bishop Ignatius Frederick Horstmann †

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 8, Page 505

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