Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. †

Deceased

Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Nov 1763		Born	Contournat, France
1 Jun 1788	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Priests of St. Sulpice
8 Apr 1808	44.4	Appointed	Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
4 Nov 1810	47.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
25 Aug 1832	68.8	Resigned	Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
17 Mar 1833	69.4	Appointed	Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
11 Feb 1850	86.3	Died	Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

a priest for 61.7 years
a bishop for 39.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Carroll †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Cardinal Lefebvre de Cheverus †
Bishop Michael Francis Egan, O.F.M. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 †

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop John Baptist Mary David, P.S.S. †
Bishop Edward Dominic Fenwick, O.P. †
Archbishop James Whitfield †
Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick †
Bishop Guy Ignatius Chabrat, P.S.S. †
Bishop Simon William Gabriel Bruté de Rémur †
Archbishop Martin John Spalding †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Samuel Eccleston, P.S.S. †
Assisted:
Bishop Michael Francis Egan, O.F.M. †

Source(s):

b: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales
b: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 7, Page 105

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