Bishop Francis Joseph Nicholson, O.C.D. †

Deceased

Archbishop of Corfù

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Nov 1803		Born	Dublin, Ireland
23 Mar 1825	21.3	Professed	Member of Order of Discalced Carmelites
1828¹	24.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Discalced Carmelites
27 Mar 1846⁸	42.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tamasus
12 May 1846	42.5	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Corfù, Greece
12 May 1846	42.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Hierapolis in Isauria
24 May 1846	42.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Hierapolis in Isauria
May 1852	48.4	Succeeded	Archbishop of Corfù, Greece
30 Apr 1855	51.4	Died	Archbishop of Corfù, Greece

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain ; ⁸ Did Not Take Effect

a priest for 27.3 years
a bishop for 8.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
- Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
- Giovanni Cardinal Brunelli †
- Bishop Jean-Félix-Onésime Luquet, M.E.P. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Francis Joseph Nicholson, O.C.D. † (1846)
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
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 Co-Consecrator of:
- Bishop Joseph (José María Benito) Serra y Juliá, O.S.B. †

Source(s):

b: CB
b: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 7, Page 163, and Page 214
b: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 7, Page 357