Bishop John Chrysostom Tuigg †

Deceased

Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Apostolic Administrator of Allegheny, Pennsylvania

Motto: Sit Nomen Domini Benedictum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Feb 1820		Born
14 May 1850	30.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
11 Jan 1876	55.8	Appointed	Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
19 Mar 1876	56.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Aug 1877	57.4	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA
7 Dec 1889	69.8	Died	Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

MicroData Summary
John Chrysostom Tuigg
Bishop John Chrysostom Tuigg
(born 19 Feb 1820, died 7 Dec 1889)
Bishop of Pittsburgh

Event Place
Birth Place Donoughmore, Diocese of Cork, Ireland
Ordained Priest Pittsburg, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop St. Paul, Cathedral, Pittsburg, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Death Place Altoona, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Buried Place (Original) Saint John, Cemetery, Altoona, Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

a priest for 39.5 years
a bishop for 13.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Michael J. O’Connor, S.J. †
Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Frederick Bryan Wood †
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Michael (Miguel) Domenec, C.M. †
Bishop of Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Bishop Tobias Mullen †
Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop James Frederick Bryan Wood † (1857)
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archbishop John Baptist Purcell † (1833)
Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Archbishop James Whitfield † (1828)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Bishop of Bardstown, 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:
Archbishop John Francis Regis Canevin † (1879)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Ambrose Watterson † (1880)

External Link(s):

Find a Grave (Grave): 52686792
WikiData: Q6261382

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 91, and Page 457
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1876, Number 21
c1: CB, 19 May 2022

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