Bishop Patrick Foley †

Deceased

Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Mar 1858		Born
1881¹	22.8	Ordained Priest	Priest
18 Mar 1896	38.0	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland
18 Mar 1896	38.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Amyclae
31 May 1896	38.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Amyclae
19 Dec 1896	38.7	Succeeded	Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland
24 Jul 1926	68.3	Died	Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Ireland

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Patrick Foley
Bishop Patrick Foley
(born 8 Mar 1858, died 24 Jul 1926)
Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin

Event Place
Birth Place Leighlinbridge
Ordained Bishop Carlow, Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin

a priest for 45.5 years
a bishop for 30.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop William Joseph Walsh †
Archbishop of Dublin
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Abraham Brownrigg, S.S.S. †
Bishop of Ossory
Bishop Nicolas Donnelly †
Titular Bishop of Canea

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop William Joseph Walsh † (1885)
Archbishop of Dublin
Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran † (1872)
Archbishop of Sydney
Paul Cardinal Cullen † (1850)
Archbishop of Dublin
Castruccio Cardinal Castracane degli Antelminelli † (1844)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Pope Gregory XVI (1831)
(Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. †)
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Andrew Killian † (1898)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop William Codd † (1918)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Baptist Tuohill Murphy, C.S.Sp. † (1916)
Bishop James Downey, C.M. † (1922)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 315945257
WikiData: Q7146513

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 97, and Page 329
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1896, Number 23

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