Bishop James Jerome Killeen †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop of Military, USA

Titular Bishop of Vamalla

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Jul 1917		Born
30 May 1942	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of New York, New York, USA
4 Nov 1975	58.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Military, USA
4 Nov 1975	58.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Vamalla
13 Dec 1975	58.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vamalla
8 Sep 1978	61.1	Died	Auxiliary Bishop of Military, USA

MicroData Summary
James Jerome Killeen
Bishop James Jerome Killeen
(born 17 Jul 1917, died 8 Sep 1978)
Auxiliary Bishop of Military

Event Place
Birth Place New York, NY, Archdiocese of New York, New York
Ordained Priest New York, NY, Archdiocese of New York, New York
Ordained Bishop St. Patrick, New York, NY, Archdiocese of New York, New York
Death Place New York, NY, Archdiocese of New York, New York

a priest for 36.2 years
a bishop for 2.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman †
Archbishop of New York, New York
Principal Consecrator:
Terence James Cardinal Cooke †
Archbishop of New York, New York
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop John Joseph Thomas Ryan †
Coadjutor Archbishop of United States of America, Military
Bishop William Joseph Moran †
Titular Bishop of Centuria

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Terence James Cardinal Cooke † (1965)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q6136848

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 33, Number 1,995
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 81, Deceased Cardinals (back)
c1: CB, 15 May 2022

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