Bishop Mark Edward Brennan

Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA

Motto: Docete Omnes Gentes

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Feb 1947		Born
15 May 1976	29.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Washington, District of Columbia, USA
5 Dec 2016	69.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
5 Dec 2016	69.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Rusibisir
19 Jan 2017	69.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Rusibisir
23 Jul 2019	72.4	Appointed	Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA
22 Aug 2019	72.5	Installed	Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA
1 May 2026	79.2	Retired	Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA

MicroData Summary
Mark Edward Brennan
Bishop Mark Edward Brennan
(born 6 Feb 1947)
Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston

Ad Limina - December 2019: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Boston, MA, Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts
Ordained Priest St. Matthew, Cathedral, Washington, DC, Archdiocese of Washington, District of Columbia
Ordained Bishop Mary Our Queen, Cathedral, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland

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

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop William Wakefield Baum †
Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop William Edward Lori
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Donald William Cardinal Wuerl
Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Edwin Frederick Cardinal O’Brien
Archbishop Emeritus of Baltimore, Maryland

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop William Edward Lori (1995)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
James Aloysius Cardinal Hickey † (1967)
Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Archbishop John Francis Dearden † (1948)
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q27960683

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 5 Dec 2016
ob/c2: CB, 5 Dec 2016
c134: CB, 14 Jan 2017
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 231, Number 19,320
ab: Bollettino, 23 Jul 2019
op.loc: CB, 28 Oct 2022
r: Bollettino, 1 May 2026

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