Bishop William Ambrose Jones, O.S.A. †

Deceased

Bishop of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Jul 1865		Born
6 Feb 1888	22.5	Professed	Member of Order of St. Augustine
15 Mar 1890	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of St. Augustine
12 Jan 1907	41.4	Appointed	Bishop of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico)
24 Feb 1907	41.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico)
17 Feb 1921	55.5	Died	Bishop of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico)

MicroData Summary
William Ambrose Jones
Bishop William Ambrose Jones O.S.A.
(born 21 Jul 1865, died 17 Feb 1921)
Bishop of Puerto Rico (Porto Rico)

Event Place
Birth Place Cambridge, NY, USA

a priest for 30.9 years
a bishop for 13.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Patrick John Ryan †
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Giuseppe Aversa †
Titular Archbishop of Sardes
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Pedro Ladislao González y Estrada †
Bishop of San Cristobal de la Habana
Bishop Antonio Aurelio Torres y Sanz, O.C.D. †
Bishop of Cienfuegos

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Giuseppe Aversa † (1906)
Titular Archbishop of Sardes
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Michel Antoine Marie Vuylsteke, O.P. † (1910)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q15733806

Source(s):

b: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1913
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1907, Number 9
prof/c1: CB, 24 Jul 2014

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