Bishop James Edward Michaels, S.S.C.M.E. †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA

Titular Bishop of Verbe

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 May 1926		Born
21 Dec 1951	25.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionary Society of St. Columban
15 Feb 1966	39.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Gwangju, Korea (South)
15 Feb 1966	39.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Verbe
14 Apr 1966	39.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Verbe
3 Apr 1973	46.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
22 Sep 1987	61.3	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA
21 Sep 2010	84.3	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, USA

MicroData Summary
James Edward Michaels
Bishop James Edward Michaels S.S.C.M.E.
(born 30 May 1926, died 21 Sep 2010)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston

Event Place
Birth Place Chicago, Archdiocese of Chicago, Illinois
Ordained Priest Chicago, Archdiocese of Chicago, Illinois

a priest for 58.7 years
a bishop for 44.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop William Edward Cousins †
Titular Bishop of Forma
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Leo Binz †
Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Harold William Henry, S.S.C.M.E. †
Archbishop of Gwangju
Bishop William Aloysius O’Connor †
Bishop of Springfield in Illinois

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Leo Binz † (1942)
Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota
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: Q1680322

Source(s):

d: CB
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology (back)
c1: CB, 9 Feb 2018

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