Archbishop James Frederick Bryan Wood †

Deceased

Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Apr 1813		Born
7 Apr 1836	22.9	Converted
25 Mar 1844	30.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
9 Jan 1857	43.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
9 Jan 1857	43.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Antigonea
26 Apr 1857	43.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Antigonea
5 Jan 1860	46.6	Succeeded	Bishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
12 Feb 1875	61.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
20 Jun 1883	70.1	Died	Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

MicroData Summary
James Frederick Bryan Wood
Archbishop James Frederick Bryan Wood
(born 27 Apr 1813, died 20 Jun 1883)
Archbishop of Philadelphia

First Vatican Council: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Philadelphia, PA, Diocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Cincinnati, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio
Death Place Philadelphia, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

a priest for 39.2 years
a bishop for 26.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Baptist Purcell †
Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop St. John Nepomucene Neumann, C.Ss.R. †
Bishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bishop Richard Vincent Whelan †
Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Baptist Purcell † (1833)
Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Archbishop James Whitfield † (1828)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky
Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Archbishop of Ravenna
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 Thomas McGovern † (1861)
Bishop John Edmund Fitzmaurice † (1862)
Archbishop Edmond Francis Prendergast † (1865)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Jeremiah Francis Shanahan † (1868)
Bishop William O’Hara † (1868)
Bishop John Tuigg † (1876)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop William Henry Elder † (1857)
Bishop John Quinlan † (1859)
Bishop Tobias Mullen † (1868)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 51347982
WikiData: Q3509606

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 106, and Page 452
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1857, Number 19

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