Bishop Michael John Sheridan †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Mar 1945		Born
29 May 1971	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
9 Jul 1997	52.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
9 Jul 1997	52.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Thibiuca
3 Sep 1997	52.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thibiuca
4 Dec 2001	56.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
30 Jan 2003	57.9	Succeeded	Bishop of Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
17 Jun 2013	68.2	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Pueblo, Colorado, USA
27 Feb 2014	68.9	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Pueblo, Colorado, USA
30 Apr 2021	76.1	Retired	Bishop of Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
27 Sep 2022	77.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

MicroData Summary for Michael John Sheridan
(VIAF: 3797271; WikiData: Q1928046)
Bishop Michael John Sheridan (born 4 Mar 1945, died 27 Sep 2022) Bishop Emeritus of Colorado Springs

Event Place
Birth Place Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Bishop Saint Louis, Cathedral, Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place Penrose, Hospital, Colorado Springs, Diocese of Colorado Springs, Colorado
Buried Place (Original) Evergreen, Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Diocese of Colorado Springs, Colorado

a priest for 51.3 years
a bishop for 25.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
John Joseph Cardinal Carberry †
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Edward Kenneth Braxton
Titular Bishop of Macomades Rusticiana
Bishop Edward Joseph O’Donnell †
Bishop of Lafayette, Louisiana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali (1985)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan (2001)
Bishop Stephen Jay Berg (2014)
Bishop James Robert Golka (2021)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Bishop	Saint Louis, Cathedral, Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place	Penrose, Hospital, Colorado Springs, Diocese of Colorado Springs, Colorado
Buried Place (Original)	Evergreen, Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Diocese of Colorado Springs, Colorado

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 9 Jul 1997
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 149, Number 13,042
c4: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Additions/Corrections (front)
ab: CB, 23 Jun 2013
r: Bollettino, 30 Apr 2021
d: CB, 27 Sep 2022

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