Bishop Emil Aloysius Wcela †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rockville Centre, New York, USA

Titular Bishop of Filaca

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 May 1931		Born
2 Jun 1956	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brooklyn, New York, USA
6 Apr 1957	25.9	Incardinated	Priest of Rockville Centre, New York, USA
21 Oct 1988	57.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York, USA
21 Oct 1988	57.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Filaca
13 Dec 1988	57.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Filaca
3 Apr 2007	75.9	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York, USA
21 May 2022	91.0	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rockville Centre, New York, USA

MicroData Summary for Emil Aloysius Wcela
(WikiData: Q1335787)
Bishop Emil Aloysius Wcela (born 1 May 1931, died 21 May 2022) Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rockville Centre

Ad Limina - October 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Bay Shore, Diocese of Brooklyn, New York
Ordained Priest St. James, Pro-Cathedral, Brooklyn, Diocese of Brooklyn, New York
Ordained Bishop Saint Agnes, Cathedral, Rockville Centre, Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York
Death Place St Pius X Residence For Retired Priests, Ronkonkoma

a priest for 65.9 years
a bishop for 33.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Thomas Edmund Molloy †
Bishop of Brooklyn, New York
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop John Raymond McGann †
Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop James Joseph Daly †
Titular Bishop of Castra Nova
Bishop Alfred John Markiewicz †
Titular Bishop of Afufenia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Raymond McGann † (1971)
Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York
Bishop Walter Philip Kellenberg † (1953)
Bishop of Rockville Centre, New York
James Francis Aloysius Cardinal McIntyre † (1941)
Archbishop of Los Angeles, California
Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman † (1932)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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 Paul Henry Walsh † (2003)
Bishop Peter Anthony Libasci (2007)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Bay Shore, Diocese of Brooklyn, New York
Ordained Priest	St. James, Pro-Cathedral, Brooklyn, Diocese of Brooklyn, New York
Ordained Bishop	Saint Agnes, Cathedral, Rockville Centre, Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York
Death Place	St Pius X Residence For Retired Priests, Ronkonkoma

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 3 Apr 2007
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 112, Number 9,924
c1: CB, 12 May 2022
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1988, Number 157

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