Bishop Charles Herman Helmsing †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Mar 1908		Born
10 Jun 1933	25.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
17 Mar 1949	40.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
17 Mar 1949	40.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Axomis
19 Apr 1949	41.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Axomis
24 Aug 1956	48.4	Appointed	Bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA
27 Jan 1962	53.8	Appointed	Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
27 Jun 1977	69.2	Resigned	Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA
20 Dec 1993	85.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri, USA

MicroData Summary
Charles Herman Helmsing
Bishop Charles Herman Helmsing
(born 23 Mar 1908, died 20 Dec 1993)
Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City-Saint Joseph

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Shrewsbury, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Priest St. Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Bishop Saint Louis, Cathedral, St. Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place Kansas City, MO, Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri

a priest for 60.5 years
a bishop for 44.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop John Joseph Glennon †
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter †
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Patrick Cody †
Titular Bishop of Apollonia
Bishop Leo John Steck †
Titular Bishop of Ilium

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter † (1933)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Joseph Chartrand † (1910)
Bishop of Indianapolis, Indiana
Archbishop Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Falconio, O.F.M. Ref. † (1892)
Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Marion Francis Forst † (1960)
Bishop Joseph Vincent Sullivan † (1967)
Bishop George Kinzie Fitzsimons † (1975)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Glennon Patrick Flavin † (1957)
Archbishop Ignatius Jerome Strecker † (1962)
Bishop Edward Louis Fedders, M.M. † (1963)
Bishop Joseph Alphonse McNicholas † (1969)
Bishop Michael Francis McAuliffe † (1969)
William Wakefield Cardinal Baum † (1970)
Bishop John Nicholas Wurm † (1976)
Bishop Joseph Hubert Hart † (1976)
Bishop Lawrence James McNamara † (1978)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Shrewsbury, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Priest	St. Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Bishop	Saint Louis, Cathedral, St. Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place	Kansas City, MO, Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri

External Link(s):

VIAF: 255738899
WikiData: Q5079011

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 137
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1949, Number 25
c1: CB, 14 May 2022

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