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Bishop William Aloysius O’Connor †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Springfield in Illinois

Events

a priest for 56.1 years a bishop for 34.7 years

Ordained Priest by: George William Cardinal Mundelein † Principal Consecrator: Samual Alphonsius Cardinal Stritch † Principal Co-Consecrators: Bishop John Joseph Boylan † Bishop Albert Rudolph Zuroweste †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Bishop William Aloysius O’Connor † (1949) Samual Alphonsius Cardinal Stritch † (1921) Archbishop Henry Moeller † (1900) Archbishop William Henry Elder † (1857) Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick † (1830) 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 Co-Consecrator of: Bishop John Baptist Franz † Bishop Raymond Peter Hillinger † Bishop Cletus Francis O'Donnell † Bishop Aloysius John Wycislo † Bishop Romeo Roy Blanchette † Bishop James Edward Michaels, S.S.C.M.E. Bishop Victor Herman Balke

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