Bishop John Francis (William Joseph) Whelan, O.C.D. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bombay, India

Titular Bishop of Aureliopolis in Lydia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Jul 1798		Born
4 Oct 1817	19.2	Professed	Member of Order of Discalced Carmelites
7 Jun 1842	43.9	Appointed	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Bombay, India
7 Jun 1842	43.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Aureliopolis in Lydia
3 Jul 1842	43.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Aureliopolis in Lydia
5 Jan 1848	49.4	Succeeded	Vicar Apostolic of Bombay, India
4 Aug 1850	52.0	Resigned	Vicar Apostolic of Bombay, India
13 Dec 1876	78.4	Died	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bombay, India

MicroData Summary
John Francis (William Joseph) Whelan
Bishop John Francis (William Joseph) Whelan O.C.D.
(born 12 Jul 1798, died 13 Dec 1876)
Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Bombay

Event Place
Birth Place Dublin, Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland
Ordained Bishop St. Teresa (Clarendon Street), Dublin, Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland

a bishop for 34.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Daniel Murray †
Archbishop of Dublin
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Francis Haly †
Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin
Bishop Cornelius Denvir †
Bishop of Down and Connor

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Daniel Murray † (1809)
Archbishop of Dublin
Archbishop John Thomas Troy, O.P. † (1777)
Archbishop of Dublin
Archbishop Ignazio Busca † (1775)
Titular Archbishop of Hemesa
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop James Moore † (1858)
Bishop Matthew Gibney † (1863)
Bishop John Brady † (1864)
Bishop Lawrence Scanlan † (1868)
Archbishop John O’Reilly † (1869)
Bishop Richard Scannell † (1871)
Bishop Jeremiah Joseph Doyle † (1874)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop James Quinn † (1859)
Bishop Matthew Quinn † (1865)
Bishop James Murray † (1865)
Bishop Thomas Timothy O’Mahony † (1869)
Bishop John Leonard † (1872)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Dublin, Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland
Ordained Bishop	St. Teresa (Clarendon Street), Dublin, Archdiocese of Dublin, Ireland

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Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 97
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1842, Number 33
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 98, Number 8,413

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