Bishop William Edward Koenig

Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Aug 1956		Born
14 May 1983	26.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rockville Centre, New York, USA
30 Apr 2021	64.7	Appointed	Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware, USA
13 Jul 2021	64.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware, USA

MicroData Summary
William Edward Koenig
Bishop William Edward Koenig
(born 17 Aug 1956)
Bishop of Wilmington

Event Place
Birth Place Queens, Diocese of Brooklyn, New York
Ordained Priest St. Agnes, Cathedral, Rockville Centre, Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York
Ordained Bishop Saint Elizabeth, Church, Wilmington, Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Wilmington.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Raymond McGann †
Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop William Edward Lori
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Oliver Barres
Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York
Bishop William Francis Malooly
Bishop Emeritus of Wilmington, Delaware

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop William Edward Lori (1995)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
James Aloysius Cardinal Hickey † (1967)
Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia
Archbishop John Francis Dearden † (1948)
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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: Q106656147

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 30 Apr 2021
mn/ob/c1+: CB, 30 Apr 2021
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 249, Number 20,714

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