Bishop Richard Pius Miles, O.P. †

Deceased

Bishop of Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 May 1791		Born
13 May 1810	18.9	Professed	Member of Order of Friars Preachers
21 Sep 1816	25.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Preachers
28 Jul 1837	46.1	Appointed	Bishop of Nashville, Tennessee, USA
16 Sep 1838	47.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Nashville, Tennessee, USA
21 Feb 1860	68.7	Died	Bishop of Nashville, Tennessee, USA

MicroData Summary for Richard Pius Miles
(VIAF: 53702676; WikiData: Q7328449)
Bishop Richard Pius Miles O.P. (born 17 May 1791, died 21 Feb 1860) Bishop of Nashville

Event Place
Birth Place Prince George's County, MD, Diocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Priest Springfield, KY, Diocese of Bardstown, Kentucky
Ordained Bishop Bardstown, Diocese of Bardstown, Kentucky
Death Place Nashville, Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee

a priest for 43.4 years
a bishop for 21.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. †
Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Joseph Rosati, C.M. †
Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Simon William Gabriel Bruté de Rémur †
Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana
Bishop Guy Ignatius Chabrat, P.S.S. †
Titular Bishop of Bolina

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joseph Rosati, C.M. † (1824)
Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Louis-Guillaume-Valentin Dubourg, P.S.S. † (1815)
Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas (Saint Louis of New Orleans)
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Jacques-Maurice des Landes d’Aussac de Saint Palais † (1849)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Ignatius Aloysius Reynolds † (1844)
Archbishop John Martin Henni † (1844)
Archbishop Martin John Spalding † (1848)
Bishop James Oliver Van de Velde, S.J. † (1849)
Bishop John McGill † (1850)
Archbishop Thomas Langdon Grace, O.P. † (1859)
Assisted:
Bishop Guy Ignatius Chabrat, P.S.S. † (1834)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Prince George's County, MD, Diocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Priest	Springfield, KY, Diocese of Bardstown, Kentucky
Ordained Bishop	Bardstown, Diocese of Bardstown, Kentucky
Death Place	Nashville, Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee

Source(s):

ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 115
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 276
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1838, Number 29
c1: CB, 18 May 2022

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