Archbishop Thomas Joseph Toolen †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Mobile, Alabama, USA

Titular Archbishop of Glastonia

Motto: Soli Deo Honor Et Gloria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Feb 1886		Born
27 Sep 1910	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
28 Feb 1927	41.0	Appointed	Bishop of Mobile, Alabama, USA
4 May 1927	41.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mobile, Alabama, USA
27 May 1954	68.2	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Mobile-Birmingham, Alabama, USA
29 Sep 1969	83.5	Retired	Bishop of Mobile, Alabama, USA
29 Sep 1969	83.5	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Glastonia
4 Dec 1976	90.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Mobile, Alabama, USA

MicroData Summary
Thomas Joseph Toolen
Archbishop Thomas Joseph Toolen
(born 28 Feb 1886, died 4 Dec 1976)
Bishop Emeritus of Mobile

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Priest Assumption, Cathedral, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Bishop Assumption, Cathedral, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Death Place Mobile, Diocese of Mobile, Alabama

a priest for 66.1 years
a bishop for 49.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
James Cardinal Gibbons †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Michael Joseph Keyes, S.M. †
Bishop of Savannah, Georgia
Bishop Richard Oliver Gerow †
Bishop of Natchez, Mississippi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley † (1914)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Benjamin Joseph Keiley † (1900)
Bishop of Savannah, Georgia
James Cardinal Gibbons † (1868)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Archbishop Martin John Spalding † (1848)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky
Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Archbishop of Ravenna
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 Angelo (William Thomas) Acerra, O.S.B. † (1950)
Bishop William Russell Houck † (1951)
Bishop William Benedict Friend † (1959)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Aloysius Durick † (1955)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Michael McNamara † (1928)
Bishop Charles Pasquale Greco † (1946)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 26380790
WikiData: Q7791412

Source(s):

ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 117
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1927, Number 23
c1: CB, 18 May 2022

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