Bishop William Andrew Macdonell †

Deceased

Bishop of Alexandria in Ontario, Canada

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Nov 1853		Born
11 Sep 1881	27.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Kingston, Ontario, Canada
21 Jan 1890	36.1	Incardinated	Priest of Alexandria (in America), Ontario, Canada
21 Mar 1906	52.3	Appointed	Bishop of Alexandria (in America), Ontario, Canada
24 Jun 1906	52.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Alexandria (in America), Ontario, Canada
10 Nov 1920	66.9	Died	Bishop of Alexandria in Ontario, Canada

MicroData Summary
William Andrew Macdonell
Bishop William Andrew Macdonell
(born 30 Nov 1853, died 10 Nov 1920)
Bishop of Alexandria in Ontario

Event Place
Birth Place South Branch, Rivière-aux-Raisins

a priest for 39.1 years
a bishop for 14.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Louis Joseph Napoléon Paul Bruchési †
Archbishop of Montréal, Québec
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Fergus Patrick McEvay †
Bishop of London, Ontario
Bishop David Joseph Scollard †
Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Louis Joseph Napoléon Paul Bruchési † (1897)
Archbishop of Montréal, Québec
Archbishop Louis-Nazaire Bégin † (1888)
Titular Archbishop of Cyrene
Elzéar-Alexandre Cardinal Taschereau † (1871)
Archbishop of Québec
Archbishop John Joseph Lynch, C.M. † (1859)
Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario
Bishop Armand-Françios-Marie de Charbonnel, O.F.M. Cap. † (1850)
Bishop of Toronto, Ontario
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Michael Francis Fallon, O.M.I. † (1910)
Archbishop Joseph-Guillaume-Laurent Forbes † (1913)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q8004438

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 45
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1906, Number 38

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