Archbishop Fulton John Sheen †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Rochester, New York

Titular Archbishop of Neoportus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 May 1895		Born	El Paso, IL
20 Sep 1919	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Peoria, Illinois, USA
28 May 1951	56.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of New York, New York, USA
28 May 1951	56.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Caesariana
11 Jun 1951	56.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Caesariana
21 Oct 1966	71.5	Appointed	Bishop of Rochester, New York, USA
6 Oct 1969	74.4	Retired	Bishop of Rochester, New York, USA
6 Oct 1969	74.4	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Neoportus
9 Dec 1979	84.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Rochester, New York, USA

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a priest for 60.2 years
a bishop for 28.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, O.C.D. †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Leone Giovanni Battista Nigris †
Archbishop Martin John O’Connor †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Fulton John Sheen † (1951)
Adeodato Giovanni Cardinal Piazza, O.C.D. † (1930)
Basilio Cardinal Pompilj † (1913)
Antonio Cardinal Agliardi † (1884)
Giovanni Cardinal Simeoni † (1875)
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Pope Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti † (1827)
Pope Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Castiglioni † (1800)
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Enrique Cardinal Enríquez † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
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 Joseph Brendan Houlihan, S.P.S. †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas John Feeney, S.J. †
Paul Cardinal Zoungrana, M. Afr. †
Jérôme Louis Cardinal Rakotomalala †
Bernard Cardinal Yago †
Bishop Dominic Yoshimatsu Noguchi †
Bishop Joseph Kilasara, C.S.Sp. †
Peter Poreku Cardinal Dery †
Bishop Joseph Mikararanga Busimba †
Bishop James Hagan, C.S.Sp. †
Bishop Aloysius Louis Scheerer, O.P. †
Bishop Eusebius John Crawford, O.P. †
Bishop Anthony Denis Galvin, M.H.M. †
Bishop Renatus Lwamosa Butibubage †
Bishop Thomas William Muldoon †
Bishop François Xavier Rajaonarivo †
Bishop Marie-Jean-Baptiste-Hippolyte Berlier, C.SS.R. †
Archbishop Francis Carroll, S.M.A. †
Archbishop Joseph Cheng Tien-Siang, O.P. †
Bishop Angelo Cuniberti, I.M.C. †
Bishop Caesar Gatimu †
Bishop John Baptist Gobbato, P.I.M.E. †
Bishop William Zephyrine Gomes †
Archbishop Pius Kerketta, S.J. †
Archbishop Stanislaus Lokuang †
Bishop Thomas Albert Newman, M.S. †
Bishop Placidus Gervasius Nkalanga, O.S.B.
Bishop Ignatius Phakoe, O.M.I. †
Bishop Sebastian U Shwe Yauk †
Bishop Petrus Pao-Zin Tou †
Bishop John Edward Taylor, O.M.I. †
Bishop Ernest Bertrand Boland, O.P.
Bishop Dennis Walter Hickey †
Bishop John Edgar McCafferty †
Bishop Joseph Lloyd Hogan †

Source(s):

b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1951, Number 54

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