William Wakefield Cardinal Baum †

Deceased

Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary

Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in via Flaminia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Nov 1926		Born
12 May 1951	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kansas City, Missouri, USA
18 Feb 1970	43.2	Appointed	Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
6 Apr 1970	43.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
5 Mar 1973	46.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
9 May 1973	46.4	Installed	Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
24 May 1976	49.5	Elevated to Cardinal
24 May 1976	49.5	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in via Flaminia
15 Jan 1980	53.1	Appointed	Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Institutes of Study)
18 Mar 1980	53.3	Resigned	Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
6 Apr 1990	63.3	Appointed	Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
22 Nov 2001	75.0	Retired	Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary
23 Jul 2015	88.6	Died	Major Penitentiary Emeritus of the Apostolic Penitentiary

MicroData Summary for William Wakefield Baum
(VIAF: 62835849; WikiData: Q546828)
William Wakefield Cardinal Baum (born 21 Nov 1926, died 23 Jul 2015) Major Penitentiary Emeritus of Apostolic Penitentiary

Consistory - 1976: Created Cardinal
Conclave - August 1978: Participated
Conclave - October 1978: Participated
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Conclave - 2013: Non-Voting (Age)

Event Place
Birth Place Dallas, TX
Ordained Bishop Saint Agnes, Cathedral, Springfield, Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA

a priest for 64.1 years
a bishop for 45.2 years
a cardinal for 39.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Edwin Vincent O’Hara †
Bishop of Kansas City, Missouri
Principal Consecrator:
John Joseph Cardinal Carberry †
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Charles Herman Helmsing †
Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri
Bishop Joseph Vincent Sullivan †
Titular Bishop of Thagamuta

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

John Joseph Cardinal Carberry † (1956)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Raymond Augustine Kearney † (1935)
Titular Bishop of Lysinia
Bishop Thomas Edmund Molloy † (1920)
Bishop of Brooklyn, New York
Bishop Charles Edward McDonnell † (1892)
Bishop of Brooklyn, New York
Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan † (1873)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Archbishop John McCloskey † (1844)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Bishop John Joseph Hughes † (1838)
Bishop of New York, New York
Bishop John Dubois † (1826)
Bishop of New York, New York
Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal, P.S.S. † (1817)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Lefebvre de Cheverus † (1810)
Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts
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 Deacon:
Bishop Robert Herman Flock (1981)
Bishop Robert Philip Reed (1984)
Archbishop Michael Wallace Banach (1988)
Bishop Joseph Mark Siegel (1988)
Ordained Priest:
Bishop Mark Edward Brennan (1976)
Archbishop William Edward Lori (1977)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas William Lyons † (1974)
Archbishop Eugene Antonio Marino, S.S.J. † (1974)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bernard Francis Cardinal Law † (1973)
Bishop George Kinzie Fitzsimons † (1975)
Archbishop William Edward Lori (1995)
Bishop John Brendan McCormack † (1995)
Bishop William Francis Murphy (1995)
Bishop James Francis McCarthy (1999)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Dallas, TX
Ordained Bishop	Saint Agnes, Cathedral, Springfield, Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Deceased Cardinals (back)
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
d: CB, 23 Jul 2015
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 224, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 225, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 9, Number 459

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