Bishop Benjamin Joseph Keiley †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Savannah, Georgia, USA

Titular Bishop of Scilium

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Oct 1847		Born
31 Dec 1873	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Wilmington, Delaware, USA
1886¹	38.2	Incardinated	Priest of Savannah, Georgia, USA
2 Apr 1900	52.4	Appointed	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA
3 Jun 1900	52.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA
18 Mar 1922	74.4	Retired	Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA
18 Mar 1922	74.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Scilium
17 Jun 1925	77.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Savannah, Georgia, USA

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Benjamin Joseph Keiley
(VIAF: 8953352; WikiData: Q4888891)
Bishop Benjamin Joseph Keiley (born 13 Oct 1847, died 17 Jun 1925) Bishop Emeritus of Savannah

Event Place
Birth Place Petersburg, VA, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Ordained Priest Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Ordained Bishop St. Peter, Cathedral, Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Death Place Atlanta, Diocese of Savannah, Georgia

a priest for 51.4 years
a bishop for 25.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop James Gibbons †
Bishop of Richmond, Virginia
Principal Consecrator:
James Cardinal Gibbons †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Henry Pinckney Northrop †
Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina
Bishop John James Joseph Monaghan †
Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley † (1914)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop William John Kenny † (1902)
Bishop Laureano Vérez de Acevedo, S.J. † (1908)
Bishop Owen Patrick Bernard Corrigan † (1909)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Petersburg, VA, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Ordained Priest	Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Ordained Bishop	St. Peter, Cathedral, Richmond, Diocese of Richmond, Virginia
Death Place	Atlanta, Diocese of Savannah, Georgia

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 504
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 9, Number 453, Ascendance
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1900, Number 36
c1: CB, 20 May 2022

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