Bishop William Francis O’Shea, M.M. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Heijo, Korea (North)

Titular Bishop of Naissus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Dec 1884		Born
5 Dec 1917	32.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
11 Jul 1939	54.5	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Heijo, Korea (North)
11 Jul 1939	54.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Naissus
29 Oct 1939	54.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Naissus
17 Apr 1944	59.3	Resigned	Vicar Apostolic of Heijo, Korea (North)
22 Feb 1945	60.2	Died	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Heijo, Korea (North)

MicroData Summary for William Francis O’Shea
(WikiData: Q19538829)
Bishop William Francis O’Shea M.M. (born 9 Dec 1884, died 22 Feb 1945) Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Heijo

Event Place
Birth Place New York, NY, Archdiocese of New York, New York, USA
Ordained Priest Maryknoll, NY, Archdiocese of New York, New York, USA
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place New York, NY, Archdiocese of New York, New York, USA

a priest for 27.2 years
a bishop for 5.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Thomas Francis Cusack †
Bishop of Albany, New York
Principal Consecrator:
Pope Pius XII
(Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini †
Titular Archbishop of Theodosiopolis in Arcadia
Archbishop Henri Streicher, M. Afr. †
Titular Archbishop of Brysis

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Pius XII (1917)
(Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †)
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Edward Louis Fedders, M.M. † (1944)
Bishop John James Rudin, M.M. † (1944)

Event	Place
Birth Place	New York, NY, Archdiocese of New York, New York, USA
Ordained Priest	Maryknoll, NY, Archdiocese of New York, New York, USA
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	New York, NY, Archdiocese of New York, New York, USA

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1939, Number 66
r: CB, 27 Oct 2017
c1: CB, 22 May 2022

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