Bishop John Joseph Nilan †

Deceased

Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Motto: Dominus Firmamentum Meum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Aug 1855		Born
21 Dec 1878	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
17 Feb 1910	54.5	Appointed	Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
28 Apr 1910	54.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
13 Apr 1934	78.6	Died	Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut, USA

MicroData Summary
John Joseph Nilan
Bishop John Joseph Nilan
(born 1 Aug 1855, died 13 Apr 1934)
Bishop of Hartford

Event Place
Birth Place Newburyport, Diocese of Boston, Massachusetts
Ordained Priest Troy, NY
Ordained Bishop Saint Joseph, Cathedral, Hartford, Diocese of Hartford, Connecticut
Death Place Hartford, Diocese of Hartford, Connecticut

a priest for 55.3 years
a bishop for 23.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
John Cardinal McCloskey †
Archbishop of New York, New York
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop William Henry O’Connell †
Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Louis Sebastian Walsh †
Bishop of Portland, Maine
Bishop Daniel Francis Feehan †
Bishop of Fall River, Massachusetts

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop William Henry O’Connell † (1901)
Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
Francesco di Paolo Cardinal Satolli † (1888)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Matthew Francis Brady † (1916)
Archbishop Francis Patrick Keough † (1916)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Maurice Francis McAuliffe † (1926)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas Joseph Shahan † (1914)
Bishop Denis Matthew Lowney † (1917)
Archbishop John Gregory Murray † (1920)
Bishop Joseph Edward McCarthy † (1932)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q6242218

Source(s):

op/ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 170, Number 14,316
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1910, Number 22
c1: CB, 15 May 2022

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