Bishop John Edmund Fitzmaurice †

Deceased

Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Jan 1839		Born
21 Dec 1862	23.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
14 Dec 1897	58.9	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
14 Dec 1897	58.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Amisus
24 Feb 1898	59.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Amisus
15 Sep 1899	60.6	Succeeded	Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
18 Jun 1920	81.4	Died	Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

MicroData Summary
John Edmund Fitzmaurice
Bishop John Edmund Fitzmaurice
(born 9 Jan 1839, died 18 Jun 1920)
Bishop of Erie

Event Place
Birth Place Moyvane, Newtownsandes, Diocese of Kerry (o Ardfert) e Aghadoe, Ireland
Ordained Bishop Saints Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Philadelphia, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Death Place Erie, Diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania

a priest for 57.4 years
a bishop for 22.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop James Frederick Bryan Wood †
Bishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Patrick John Ryan †
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Frederick Ignatius Horstmann †
Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio
Bishop Edmond Francis Prendergast †
Titular Bishop of Scilium

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Patrick John Ryan † (1872)
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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 Eugene Augustine Garvey † (1901)
Bishop John Bernard MacGinley † (1910)
Bishop John Joseph McCort † (1912)
Bishop Philip Richard McDevitt † (1916)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q6231221

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 96, and Page 262
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1898, Number 12

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