Bishop William Aloysius Griffin †

Deceased

Bishop of Trenton, New Jersey, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Nov 1885		Born
15 Aug 1910	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Newark, New Jersey, USA
26 Feb 1938	52.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
1 May 1938	52.4	Ordained Bishop	Auxiliary Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, USA
18 May 1940	54.4	Appointed	Bishop of Trenton, New Jersey, USA
23 Jul 1940	54.6	Installed	Bishop of Trenton, New Jersey, USA
1 Jan 1950	64.1	Died	Bishop of Trenton, New Jersey, USA

MicroData Summary for William Aloysius Griffin
(VIAF: 11751425; WikiData: Q8003962)
Bishop William Aloysius Griffin (born 20 Nov 1885, died 1 Jan 1950) Bishop of Trenton

Event Place
Birth Place Elizabeth, Diocese of Newark, New Jersey
Ordained Bishop Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Newark, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey
Death Place Elizabeth, Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey
Buried Place (Original) Saint Mary's, Cemetery, Hamilton, NJ

a priest for 39.3 years
a bishop for 11.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Joseph O’Connor †
Bishop of Newark, New Jersey
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Thomas Joseph Walsh †
Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Aloysius Duffy †
Bishop of Buffalo, New York
Bishop Moses Elias Kiley †
Bishop of Trenton, New Jersey

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Thomas Joseph Walsh † (1918)
Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey
Archbishop Giovanni Vincenzo Bonzano † (1912)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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:
Bishop John Charles Reiss † (1947)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Thomas Aloysius Boland † (1940)
Bishop James Aloysius McNulty † (1947)

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1938, Number 30
c1: CB, 21 Sep 2016

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