Bishop Michael Joseph Bransfield

Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Sep 1943		Born
15 May 1971	27.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
9 Dec 2004	61.2	Appointed	Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA
22 Feb 2005	61.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA
13 Sep 2018	75.0	Retired	Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA

MicroData Summary for Michael Joseph Bransfield
(VIAF: 163874367; WikiData: Q1928067)
Bishop Michael Joseph Bransfield (born 8 Sep 1943) Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston

Ad Limina - January 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Philadelphia, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ordained Priest Saints Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Philadelphia, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop Saint Joseph, Cathedral, Wheeling, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
John Joseph Cardinal Krol †
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Principal Consecrator:
William Henry Cardinal Keeler †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Theodore Edgar Cardinal McCarrick
Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Bishop Bernard William Schmitt †
Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

William Henry Cardinal Keeler † (1979)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Joseph Thomas Daley † (1964)
Bishop of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Archbishop John Joseph Krol † (1953)
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
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 Timothy Christian Senior (2009)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Philadelphia, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ordained Priest	Saints Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Philadelphia, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop	Saint Joseph, Cathedral, Wheeling, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 178, Number 14,826
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 231, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 13 Sep 2018
op.loc: CB, 25 Oct 2022

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