Bishop Louis Sebastian Walsh †

Deceased

Bishop of Portland, Maine, USA

Motto: In Justitia Et Pace

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Jan 1858		Born
23 Dec 1882	24.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
22 Aug 1906	48.5	Appointed	Bishop of Portland, Maine, USA
18 Oct 1906	48.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Portland, Maine, USA
12 May 1924	66.3	Died	Bishop of Portland, Maine, USA

MicroData Summary
Louis Sebastian Walsh
Bishop Louis Sebastian Walsh
(born 22 Jan 1858, died 12 May 1924)
Bishop of Portland

Event Place
Birth Place Salem, MA, Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Immaculate Conception, Cathedral, Portland, Diocese of Portland, Maine
Death Place Portland, Diocese of Portland, Maine
Buried Place (Original) Crypt, Immaculate Conception, Cathedral, Portland, Diocese of Portland, Maine

a priest for 41.3 years
a bishop for 17.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Joseph Williams †
Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Matthew A. Harkins †
Bishop of Providence, Rhode Island
Bishop Thomas Daniel Beaven †
Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Joseph Williams † (1866)
Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts
Archbishop John McCloskey † (1844)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Bishop John Joseph Hughes † (1838)
Bishop of New York, New York
Bishop John Dubois † (1826)
Bishop of New York, New York
Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal, P.S.S. † (1817)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Lefebvre de Cheverus † (1810)
Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph John Rice † (1910)
Bishop John Joseph Nilan † (1910)
Archbishop Austin Dowling † (1912)
Bishop Thomas Francis Doran † (1915)
Bishop William Augustine Hickey † (1919)

External Link(s):

Find a Grave (Grave): 130630198
WikiData: Q6688150

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1906, Number 64
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 307
c1: CB, 19 May 2022

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