Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman †

Deceased

Archbishop of New York, New York

Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo

Vicar Apostolic of Military

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 May 1889		Born	Whitman
14 May 1916	27.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
30 Jul 1932	43.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
30 Jul 1932	43.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sila
8 Sep 1932	43.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sila
15 Apr 1939	49.9	Appointed	Archbishop of New York, New York, USA
25 Nov 1939	50.6	Appointed	Ordinary of Military, USA
18 Feb 1946	56.8	Elevated to Cardinal
18 Feb 1946	56.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
8 Sep 1957	68.3	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Military, USA
2 Dec 1967	78.6	Died	Archbishop of New York, New York, USA

Consistory - 1946: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1958: Participated
Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Conclave - 1963: Participated
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

a priest for 51.6 years
a bishop for 35.2 years
a cardinal for 21.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli †
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Giuseppe Pizzardo †
Titular Archbishop of Nicaea
Archbishop Francesco Borgongini Duca †
Titular Archbishop of Heraclea in Europa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo della Chiesa †)
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 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 †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Edward Dennis Head † (1945)
Terence James Cardinal Cooke † (1945)
Bishop Patrick Joseph Thomas Sheridan † (1947)
Bishop Anthony Francis Mestice † (1949)
Bishop Robert Anthony Brucato (1957)
Theodore Edgar Cardinal McCarrick (1958)
Bishop Timothy Anthony McDonnell (1963)
Edwin Frederick Cardinal O’Brien (1965)
Bishop Gerald Thomas Walsh (1967)
Principal Consecrator of:
John Francis Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C. † (1940)
James Francis Aloysius Cardinal McIntyre † (1941)
Bishop William Tibertus McCarty, C.SS.R. † (1943)
Bishop Joseph Patrick Donahue † (1945)
Bishop William Richard Arnold † (1945)
Bishop Thomas John McDonnell † (1947)
Patrick Aloysius Cardinal O’Boyle † (1948)
Bishop Joseph Francis Flannelly † (1948)
Bishop James Henry Ambrose Griffiths † (1950)
Bishop Christopher Joseph Weldon † (1950)
Bishop David Frederick Cunningham † (1950)
Bishop Joseph Oliver Bowers, S.V.D. † (1953)
Bishop Lawrence Bernard Brennan Casey † (1953)
Bishop Joseph Maria Pernicone † (1954)
Bishop Philip Joseph Furlong † (1956)
Bishop Carlos Arturo Brown, M.M. † (1957)
Bishop Vincent Ignatius Kennally, S.J. † (1957)
Bishop John Michael Fearns † (1957)
Bishop John William Comber, M.M. † (1959)
Archbishop John Joseph Maguire † (1959)
Bishop Tomás Roberto Patricio Manning, O.F.M. † (1959)
Luis Cardinal Aponte Martínez † (1960)
Bishop Alfredo José Isaac Cecilio Francesco Méndez-Gonzalez, C.S.C. † (1960)
Bishop Francis Frederick Reh † (1962)
Archbishop Thomas Andrew Donnellan † (1964)
Bishop George Theodore Boileau, S.J. † (1964)
Bishop George Henry Guilfoyle † (1964)
Bishop Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver † (1964)
Terence James Cardinal Cooke † (1965)
Bishop William Joseph Moran † (1965)
Archbishop John Joseph Thomas Ryan † (1966)
Bishop Edwin Bernard Broderick † (1967)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Daniel Francis Desmond † (1933)
Bishop William Aloysius Rice, S.J. † (1939)
Bishop Edward Francis Ryan † (1945)
Bishop Louis Francis Kelleher † (1945)

Source(s):

b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1932, Number 61

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