Bishop Michael Higgins †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop of Tuam, Ireland

Titular Bishop of Temnus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Sep 1863		Born
5 Feb 1888	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Tuam, Ireland
23 Mar 1912	48.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Tuam, Ireland
23 Mar 1912	48.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Temnus
16 Jun 1912	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Temnus
22 Apr 1918	54.6	Died	Auxiliary Bishop of Tuam, Ireland

MicroData Summary
Michael Higgins
Bishop Michael Higgins
(born 6 Sep 1863, died 22 Apr 1918)
Auxiliary Bishop of Tuam

Event Place
Birth Place Castlebar

a priest for 30.2 years
a bishop for 5.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Healy †
Archbishop of Tuam
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Thomas O’Dea †
Bishop of Galway and Kilmacduagh
Bishop Thomas Patrick Gilmartin †
Bishop of Clonfert

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Healy † (1884)
Archbishop of Tuam
Archbishop John MacEvilly † (1857)
Archbishop of Tuam
Archbishop John MacHale † (1825)
Archbishop of Tuam
Archbishop Daniel Murray † (1809)
Archbishop of Dublin
Archbishop John Thomas Troy, O.P. † (1777)
Archbishop of Dublin
Archbishop Ignazio Busca † (1775)
Titular Archbishop of Hemesa
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Alphonsus Heavey, O.S.A. † (1914)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q64733841

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1913
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1912, Number 36

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