Archbishop John Ireland †

Deceased

Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Motto: Omnibus Omnia Factus Sum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Sep 1838		Born
21 Dec 1861	23.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
12 Feb 1875	36.4	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Nebraska, USA
12 Feb 1875	36.4	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Maronea
28 Jul 1875	36.8	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
21 Dec 1875	37.2	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
31 Jul 1884	45.8	Succeeded	Bishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
15 May 1888	49.6	Appointed	Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
25 Sep 1918	80.0	Died	Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

MicroData Summary
John Ireland
Archbishop John Ireland
(born 11 Sep 1838, died 25 Sep 1918)
Archbishop of Saint Paul

Event Place
Birth Place Burnchurch, Diocese of Ossory, Ireland
Ordained Priest St. Paul, Diocese of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Ordained Bishop St. Paul, Cathedral, St. Paul, Diocese of Saint Paul, Minnesota

a priest for 56.7 years
a bishop for 42.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Thomas Langdon Grace, O.P. †
Bishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Thomas Langdon Grace, O.P. †
Bishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Michael Heiss †
Bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin
Bishop Rupert (Albert) Seidenbusch, O.S.B. †
Titular Bishop of Alia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop James Albert Duffy † (1899)
Archbishop Edwin Vincent O’Hara † (1905)
Archbishop Edward Daniel Howard † (1906)
Bishop Thomas Anthony Welch † (1909)
Bishop Vincent James Ryan † (1912)
Bishop Louis Benedict Kucera † (1915)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Bernard Cotter † (1889)
Bishop James McGolrick † (1889)
Bishop John Shanley † (1889)
Bishop James Trobec † (1897)
Archbishop Alexander Christie † (1898)
Bishop John Stariha † (1902)
Archbishop James John Keane † (1902)
Bishop James O’Reilly † (1910)
Bishop John Jeremiah Lawler † (1910)
Bishop Patrick Richard Heffron † (1910)
Bishop Joseph Francis Busch † (1910)
Bishop John Baptist Vincent de Paul Wehrle, O.S.B. † (1910)
Bishop Timothy J. Corbett † (1910)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Frederick Francis Xavier Katzer † (1886)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/116670
VIAF: 95302560
WikiData: Q774308

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 369, and Page 445
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1875, Number 77
c1: CB, 19 May 2022

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