Bishop Bernard William Schmitt †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Aug 1928		Born
28 May 1955	26.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
27 May 1988	59.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA
27 May 1988	59.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Walla Walla
1 Aug 1988	59.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Walla Walla
29 Mar 1989	60.6	Appointed	Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA
9 Dec 2004	76.3	Retired	Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA
16 Aug 2011	82.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA

MicroData Summary
Bernard William Schmitt
Bishop Bernard William Schmitt
(born 17 Aug 1928, died 16 Aug 2011)
Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston

Ad Limina - April 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Wheeling, Diocese of Wheeling, West Virginia
Ordained Priest St. Joseph, Cathedral, Wheeling, Diocese of Wheeling, West Virginia
Ordained Bishop St. Joseph, Cathedral, Wheeling, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia

a priest for 56.2 years
a bishop for 23.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Thomas John McDonnell †
Titular Bishop of Sebela
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Francis Bible Schulte †
Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop William Donald Borders †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Donald William Wuerl
Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Francis Bible Schulte † (1981)
Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia
John Joseph Cardinal Krol † (1953)
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
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 †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Michael Joseph Bransfield † (2005)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q822759

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 110, Number 9,730
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 208, Necrology (back)
c1: CB, 13 May 2022

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