Bishop Richard Phelan †

Deceased

Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Jan 1828		Born
4 May 1854	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
12 May 1885	57.3	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
12 May 1885	57.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cibyra
2 Aug 1885	57.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cibyra
7 Dec 1889	61.9	Succeeded	Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
20 Dec 1904	76.9	Died	Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

MicroData Summary
Richard Phelan
Bishop Richard Phelan
(born 1 Jan 1828, died 20 Dec 1904)
Bishop of Pittsburgh

Event Place
Birth Place Ballyragget, Diocese of Ossory, Ireland
Ordained Priest Pittsburgh, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop St. Paul, Cathedral, Pittsburgh, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Death Place Idlewood, PA

a priest for 50.6 years
a bishop for 19.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Michael J. O’Connor, S.J. †
Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Patrick John Ryan †
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Tobias Mullen †
Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania
Bishop Jeremiah Francis Shanahan †
Bishop of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Patrick John Ryan † (1872)
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick † (1841)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Hugh Charles Boyle † (1898)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas Francis Brennan † (1891)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q7328399

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 204, and Page 457
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1885, Number 50
c1: CB, 19 May 2022

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