Bishop Robert William Willson (Wilson) †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Hobart

Titular Bishop of Rhodiapolis

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Feb 1794		Born	Lincoln, Great Britain
16 Dec 1824	30.8	Ordained Priest	Priest
22 Apr 1842	48.2	Appointed	Bishop of Hobart, Australia
28 Oct 1842	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Hobart, Australia
11 May 1844	50.3	Installed	Bishop of Hobart, Australia
21 Jan 1866	71.9	Resigned	Bishop of Hobart, Australia
16 Feb 1866	72.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Rhodiapolis
30 Jun 1866	72.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Hobart, Australia

a priest for 41.5 years
a bishop for 23.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Bede Polding, O.S.B. †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Thomas Walsh †
Bishop William Wareing †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Robert William Willson (Wilson) † (1842)
Archbishop John Bede Polding, O.S.B. † (1834)
Bishop James Yorke Bramston † (1823)
Bishop William Poynter † (1803)
Bishop John Douglass † (1790)
Bishop William Gibson † (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 Francis Murphy †
Archbishop James Alypius Goold, O.S.A. †
Bishop Patrick Bonaventure Geoghegan, O.F.M. †

Source(s):

b/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 110
op/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143
b: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 8, Page 482
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, Volume 7, Page 217

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