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

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 Joseph Mikararanga Busimba †
Bishop Renatus Lwamosa Butibubage †
Bishop Eusebius John Crawford, O.P. †
Peter Poreku Cardinal Dery †
Bishop Joseph Kilasara, C.S.Sp. †
Bishop Thomas William Muldoon †
Bishop Dominic Yoshimatsu Noguchi †
Bishop François Xavier Rajaonarivo †
Jérôme Louis Cardinal Rakotomalala †
Bernard Cardinal Yago †
Paul Cardinal Zoungrana, M. Afr. †
Bishop James Hagan, C.S.Sp. †
Bishop Anthony Denis Galvin, M.H.M. †
Archbishop Pius Kerketta, S.J. †
Archbishop Joseph Cheng Tien-Siang, O.P. †
Bishop Ignatius Phakoe, O.M.I. †
Bishop Thomas Albert Newman, M.S. †
Archbishop Stanislaus Lokuang †
Bishop John Baptist Gobbato, P.I.M.E. †
Bishop Sebastian U Shwe Yauk †
Bishop Marie-Jean-Baptiste-Hippolyte Berlier, C.SS.R. †
Bishop Angelo Cuniberti, I.M.C.
Archbishop Francis Carroll, S.M.A. †
Bishop Petrus Pao-Zin Tou †
Bishop William Zephyrine Gomes †
Bishop Placidus Gervasius Nkalanga, O.S.B.
Bishop Caesar Gatimu †
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 †

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