Bishop William George McCloskey †

Deceased

Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Motto: Pax Christi

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Nov 1823		Born
6 Oct 1852	28.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of New York, New York, USA
8 Dec 1859	36.0	Appointed	Rector of the Pontifical North American College
3 Mar 1868	44.3	Appointed	Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
24 May 1868	44.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
17 Sep 1909	85.8	Died	Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

MicroData Summary
William George McCloskey
Bishop William George McCloskey
(born 10 Nov 1823, died 17 Sep 1909)
Bishop of Louisville

Event Place
Birth Place Brooklyn, NY, Diocese of New York, New York
Ordained Priest New York, Archdiocese of New York, New York
Ordained Bishop S. Maria del Umilta, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Louisville, Diocese of Louisville, Kentucky

a priest for 56.9 years
a bishop for 41.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop John Joseph Hughes †
Archbishop of New York, New York
Principal Consecrator:
Karl August Cardinal von Reisach †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Frédéric-François-Xavier Ghislain de Mérode †
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Archbishop Salvatore Nobili Vitelleschi †
Bishop of Osimo e Cingoli

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Karl August Cardinal von Reisach † (1836)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Pope Gregory XVI (1831)
(Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. †)
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop James Ryan † (1871)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas Patrick Roger Foley † (1870)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Augustus Maria Bernard Anthony John Gebhard Toebbe † (1870)
Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan † (1873)
Archbishop Pietro Pace † (1877)
Bishop John Ambrose Watterson † (1880)
Bishop Henry Joseph Richter † (1883)
Archbishop Patrick William Riordan † (1883)
Bishop Camillus Paul Maes † (1885)
Bishop Maurice Francis Burke † (1887)
Bishop Richard Scannell † (1887)
Bishop James Ryan † (1888)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 2276151247937244270000
WikiData: Q8009802

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 353
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1868, Number 13
c1: CB, 17 May 2022

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