Bishop James O’Reilly †

Deceased

Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Oct 1855		Born
24 Jun 1880	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest
18 Dec 1909	54.1	Appointed	Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota, USA
19 May 1910	54.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota, USA
19 Dec 1934	79.1	Died	Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota, USA

MicroData Summary
James O’Reilly
Bishop James O’Reilly
(born 10 Oct 1855, died 19 Dec 1934)
Bishop of Fargo

Event Place
Birth Place Lisgrea, Diocese of Kilmore, Ireland
Ordained Priest Dublin, Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland
Ordained Bishop Saint Paul Seminary, Saint Mary, Chapel, Saint Paul, Archdiocese of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Death Place Fargo, Diocese of Fargo, North Dakota

a priest for 54.4 years
a bishop for 24.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Bartholomew Woodlock †
Bishop of Ardagh (and Clonmacnois)
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Ireland †
Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop James McGolrick †
Bishop of Duluth, Minnesota
Bishop James Trobec †
Bishop of Saint Cloud, Minnesota

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Ireland † (1875)
Archbishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Bishop Thomas Langdon Grace, O.P. † (1859)
Bishop of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick † (1841)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Joseph Rosati, C.M. † (1824)
Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Louis-Guillaume-Valentin Dubourg, P.S.S. † (1815)
Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas (Saint Louis of New Orleans)
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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 William Theodore Mulloy † (1916)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas Anthony Welch † (1926)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 77951036
WikiData: Q6140528

Source(s):

ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 117
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1910, Number 31
c1: CB, 16 May 2022

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