Bishop Thomas Bonacum †

Deceased

Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Motto: Per Crucem Victoria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Jan 1847		Born
18 Jun 1870	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
9 Aug 1887	40.5	Appointed	Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
30 Nov 1887	40.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
4 Feb 1911	64.0	Died	Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

MicroData Summary
Thomas Bonacum
Bishop Thomas Bonacum
(born 29 Jan 1847, died 4 Feb 1911)
Bishop of Lincoln

Event Place
Birth Place Penane, Loughmore, Archdiocese of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland
Ordained Priest St. Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Bishop St. John, Church, St. Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place Lincoln, Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska
Buried Place (Original) Saint Thomas Orphanage, Lincoln, Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska
Buried Place (Current) Crypt, Risen Christ, Cathedral, Lincoln, Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska

a priest for 40.6 years
a bishop for 23.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Joseph Melcher †
Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick †
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Louis Mary (Michael) Fink, O.S.B. †
Bishop of Leavenworth, Kansas
Bishop James O’Connor †
Bishop of Omaha, Nebraska

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas Mathias Lenihan † (1897)
Bishop John Francis Cunningham † (1898)

External Link(s):

Find a Grave (Grave): 110154533
Find a Grave (Monument): 185518545
VIAF: 315695870
WikiData: Q7787734

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 345
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1887, Number 64
c1: CB, 17 May 2022

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