Bishop Thomas Albert Andrew Becker †

Deceased

Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Dec 1832		Born
10 May 1853	20.3	Converted
18 Jun 1859	26.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
3 Mar 1868	35.1	Appointed	Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware, USA
16 Aug 1868	35.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware, USA
26 Mar 1886	53.2	Appointed	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA
16 May 1886	53.3	Installed	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA
29 Jul 1899	66.5	Died	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA

MicroData Summary
Thomas Albert Andrew Becker
Bishop Thomas Albert Andrew Becker
(born 30 Dec 1832, died 29 Jul 1899)
Bishop of Savannah

Event Place
Error () Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Birth Place Pittsburgh, PA, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop Assumption, Cathedral, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland

a priest for 40.1 years
a bishop for 30.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro †
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Martin John Spalding †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Richard Vincent Whelan †
Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia
Bishop John McGill †
Bishop of Richmond, Virginia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 Deacon:
Bishop Christopher Edward Byrne † (1891)
Ordained Priest:
Bishop Edward Joseph Dunne † (1871)
Bishop Edward Patrick Allen † (1881)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Salvatore di Pietro, S.J. † (1893)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas Patrick Roger Foley † (1870)
Archbishop William Hickley Gross, C.Ss.R. † (1873)
Archbishop John Joseph Kain † (1875)
Bishop John Moore † (1877)
Archbishop Francis August Anthony Joseph Janssens † (1881)
Bishop Henry Pinckney Northrop † (1882)
Bishop Leo Michael Haid (Hite), O.S.B. † (1888)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 11230775
WikiData: Q7786973

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 504, and Page 598
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1868, Number 32
c1: CB, 14 May 2022

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