Bishop Richard Vincent Whelan †

Deceased

Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Jan 1809		Born	Baltimore, MD
1 May 1831	22.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Richmond, Virginia, USA
19 Dec 1840	31.9	Appointed	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
21 Mar 1841	32.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
23 Jul 1850	41.5	Appointed	Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
8 Dec 1850	41.9	Installed	Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
7 Jul 1874	65.4	Died	Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA

First Vatican Council: Council Father

a priest for 43.2 years
a bishop for 33.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Samuel Eccleston, P.S.S. †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Benedict Joseph Fenwick, S.J. †
Archbishop John Joseph Hughes †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Richard Vincent Whelan † (1841)
Archbishop Samuel Eccleston, P.S.S. † (1834)
Archbishop James Whitfield † (1828)
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
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 †

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Caspar Henry Borgess †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
John Cardinal McCloskey †
Bishop William J. Quarter †
Bishop Andrew Byrne †
Bishop William Barber Tyler †
Bishop John Bernard Fitzpatrick †
Bishop Louis Amadeus Rappe †
Archbishop James Frederick Bryan Wood †
Bishop Michael (Miguel) Domenec, C.M. †
Bishop Thomas Albert Andrew Becker †

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