Bishop William Gordon Wheeler †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Leeds, England

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 May 1910		Born	Saddleworth
31 Mar 1940	29.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Leeds, England, Great Britain
29 Jan 1964	53.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Middlesbrough, England, Great Britain
29 Jan 1964	53.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Theudalis
19 Mar 1964	53.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Theudalis
25 Apr 1966	56.0	Appointed	Bishop of Leeds, England, Great Britain
27 Jun 1966	56.1	Installed	Bishop of Leeds, England, Great Britain
12 Jul 1985	75.2	Retired	Bishop of Leeds, England, Great Britain
21 Feb 1998	87.8	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Leeds, England, Great Britain

a priest for 57.9 years
a bishop for 33.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Igino Eugenio Cardinale †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop George Brunner †
Bishop George Laurence Craven †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop William Gordon Wheeler † (1964)
Archbishop Igino Eugenio Cardinale † (1963)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (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 Gerald Moverley †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Gerard McClean †
Bishop Thomas Kevin O’Brien †

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