Bishop Joseph Shiel †

Deceased

Bishop of Rockhampton, Australia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Feb 1873		Born
19 Jun 1898	25.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Melbourne, Australia
19 Aug 1912	39.5	Appointed	Bishop of Rockhampton, Australia
26 Jan 1913	39.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Rockhampton, Australia
7 Apr 1931	58.1	Died	Bishop of Rockhampton, Australia

MicroData Summary
Joseph Shiel
Bishop Joseph Shiel
(born 17 Feb 1873, died 7 Apr 1931)
Bishop of Rockhampton

Event Place
Birth Place Swainstown, Diocese of Meath, Ireland
Ordained Priest Maynooth, Ireland
Ordained Bishop Maynooth College, Ireland
Death Place Rockhampton, Diocese of Rockhampton

a priest for 32.8 years
a bishop for 18.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop William Joseph Walsh †
Archbishop of Dublin
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Daniel Mannix †
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Laurence Gaughran †
Bishop of Meath
Bishop Patrick MacKenna †
Bishop of Clogher

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Daniel Mannix † (1912)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Michael Cardinal Logue † (1879)
Archbishop of Armagh
Archbishop Daniel McGettigan † (1856)
Archbishop of Armagh
Archbishop Joseph Dixon † (1852)
Archbishop of Armagh
Archbishop Paul Cullen † (1850)
Archbishop of Dublin
Castruccio Cardinal Castracane degli Antelminelli † (1844)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Pope Gregory XVI (1831)
(Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. †)
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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:
Bishop John McCarthy † (1917)
Bishop James Byrne † (1929)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 148147118348926342693
WikiData: Q41618831

Source(s):

d: Annuario Pontificio, Year 1932
op/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1913, Number 6

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