Bishop Edmond Heelan †

Deceased

Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, USA

Motto: Adveniat Regnum Tuum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Feb 1868		Born
24 Jun 1890	22.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Dubuque, Iowa, USA
21 Dec 1918	50.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, USA
21 Dec 1918	50.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gerasa
8 Apr 1919	51.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Gerasa
8 Mar 1920	52.0	Appointed	Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, USA
20 Sep 1948	80.6	Died	Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, USA

MicroData Summary
Edmond Heelan
Bishop Edmond Heelan
(born 4 Feb 1868, died 20 Sep 1948)
Bishop of Sioux City

Event Place
Birth Place Knockaney, Archdiocese of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland
Ordained Priest Dublin, Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland
Ordained Bishop Epiphany, Cathedral, Sioux City, Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa
Death Place Sioux City, Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa
Buried Place (Original) Calvary Catholic, Cemetery, Sioux City, Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa

a priest for 58.2 years
a bishop for 29.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Abraham Brownrigg, S.S.S. †
Bishop of Ossory
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James John Keane †
Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop James Joseph Davis †
Bishop of Davenport, Iowa
Bishop Patrick Aloysius Alphonsus McGovern †
Bishop of Cheyenne, Wyoming

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop James John Keane † (1902)
Archbishop of Dubuque, Iowa
Archbishop John Ireland † (1875)
Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Bishop Thomas Langdon Grace, O.P. † (1859)
Bishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota
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 Thomas William Drumm † (1919)
Archbishop Henry Patrick Rohlman † (1927)
Bishop John Joseph Boylan † (1943)

External Link(s):

Find a Grave (Grave): 91712262
WikiData: Q5338875

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1919, Number 20
c1: CB, 20 May 2022

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