Bishop Michael Portier †

Deceased

Bishop of Mobile, Alabama, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Sep 1795		Born
16 May 1818	22.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
26 Aug 1825	29.9	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Alabama and the Floridas, USA
26 Aug 1825	29.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Olena
5 Nov 1826	31.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Olena
15 May 1829	33.6	Appointed	Bishop of Mobile, Alabama, USA
14 May 1859	63.6	Died	Bishop of Mobile, Alabama, USA

MicroData Summary for Michael Portier
(VIAF: 38802326; WikiData: Q1928930)
Bishop Michael Portier (born 7 Sep 1795, died 14 May 1859) Bishop of Mobile

Event Place
Birth Place Montbrison, Archdiocese of Lyon, France
Ordained Priest St. Louis, Diocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Bishop St. Louis, Cathedral, St. Louis, Diocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place Mobile, Diocese of Mobile, Alabama

a priest for 40.9 years
a bishop for 32.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Louis-Guillaume-Valentin Dubourg, P.S.S. †
Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas (Saint Louis of New Orleans)
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Joseph Rosati, C.M. †
Titular Bishop of Tanagra
Assisted by:
Father Donatien Olivier
Priest
Father Charles van Quickenborne, S.J.
Priest of Society of Jesus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joseph Rosati, C.M. † (1824)
Titular Bishop of Tanagra
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 Dominic Manucy † (1850)
Bishop Anthony Dominic Ambrose Pellicer † (1850)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Pierre-Jean-Mathias Loras † (1837)
Bishop John Stephen (Jean Étienne) Bazin † (1847)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Leo Raymond de Neckère, C.M. † (1830)
Archbishop Anthony Blanc † (1835)
Archbishop Jean Marie (John Mary) Odin, C.M. † (1842)
Bishop Auguste Marie Martin † (1853)
Bishop John Barry † (1857)
Bishop Patrick Neeson Lynch † (1858)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Montbrison, Archdiocese of Lyon, France
Ordained Priest	St. Louis, Diocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Bishop	St. Louis, Cathedral, St. Louis, Diocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place	Mobile, Diocese of Mobile, Alabama

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 267, and Page 290
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1826, Number 39
c1: CB, 18 May 2022

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