Bishop Peter Leo Ireton †

Deceased

Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Sep 1882		Born
20 Jun 1906	23.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
3 Aug 1935	52.8	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
3 Aug 1935	52.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cyme
23 Oct 1935	53.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cyme
6 Nov 1935	53.1	Installed	Coadjutor Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
14 Apr 1945	62.5	Succeeded	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
27 Apr 1958	75.5	Died	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA

MicroData Summary
Peter Leo Ireton
Bishop Peter Leo Ireton
(born 21 Sep 1882, died 27 Apr 1958)
Bishop of Richmond

Event Place
Birth Place Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Priest Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Bishop Assumption, Cathedral, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Death Place Georgetwon, Archdiocese of Washington, District of Columbia
Buried Place (Original) Crypt, Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia

a priest for 51.8 years
a bishop for 22.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
James Cardinal Gibbons †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Thomas Charles O’Reilly †
Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania
Bishop James Hugh Ryan †
Bishop of Omaha, Nebraska

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley † (1914)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Benjamin Joseph Keiley † (1900)
Bishop of Savannah, Georgia
James Cardinal Gibbons † (1868)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Archbishop Martin John Spalding † (1848)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky
Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Archbishop of Ravenna
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 †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Ordained Priest:
Abbot Walter (Arthur) Coggin, O.S.B. † (1943)
Bishop Walter Francis Sullivan † (1953)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Vincent Stanislaus Waters † (1945)
Bishop Joseph Howard Hodges † (1952)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Johánnes Gunnarsson, S.M.M. † (1943)
Lawrence Joseph Cardinal Shehan † (1945)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Priest	Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Bishop	Assumption, Cathedral, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Death Place	Georgetwon, Archdiocese of Washington, District of Columbia
Buried Place (Original)	Crypt, Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia

External Link(s):

Find a Grave (Grave): 183578997
VIAF: 250871219
WikiData: Q7175434

Source(s):

ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 117
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1935, Number 82
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 9, Number 453, Ascendance
c1: CB, 19 May 2022

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