Bishop George Butler †

Deceased

Bishop of Limerick, Ireland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Feb 1815		Born
26 Nov 1838	23.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Limerick, Ireland
18 Jun 1861	46.3	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Limerick, Ireland
18 Jun 1861	46.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cydonia (Agia, Canea)
25 Jul 1863	48.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cydonia (Agia, Canea)
6 Jun 1864	49.3	Succeeded	Bishop of Limerick, Ireland
3 Feb 1886	70.9	Died	Bishop of Limerick, Ireland

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Bishop George Butler (born 13 Feb 1815, died 3 Feb 1886) Bishop of Limerick

First Vatican Council: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Limerick, Diocese of Limerick
Ordained Bishop St. John, Cathedral, Limerick, Diocese of Limerick

a priest for 47.1 years
a bishop for 22.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Patrick Leahy †
Archbishop of Cashel (-Emly)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop William Keane †
Bishop of Cloyne
Bishop Michael Flannery †
Bishop of Killaloe

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Patrick Leahy † (1857)
Archbishop of Cashel (-Emly)
Archbishop Paul Cullen † (1850)
Archbishop of Dublin
Castruccio Cardinal Castracane degli Antelminelli † (1844)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Pope Gregory XVI (1831)
(Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. †)
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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 †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Patrick Duggan † (1872)
Bishop John McCarthy † (1874)
Bishop William Fitzgerald † (1877)
Bishop Daniel McCarthy † (1878)
Archbishop James Vincent Cleary † (1880)
Bishop Andrew Higgins † (1882)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Limerick, Diocese of Limerick
Ordained Bishop	St. John, Cathedral, Limerick, Diocese of Limerick

Source(s):

b: Website of the Diocese
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 81, and Page 343
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1861, Number 20

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