Bishop Sylvester Horton Rosecrans †

Deceased

Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Feb 1827		Born
1845¹	17.9	Converted
5 Jun 1853	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
7 Jan 1862	34.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
7 Jan 1862	34.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Pompeiopolis in Cilicia
25 Mar 1862	35.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Pompeiopolis in Cilicia
3 Mar 1868	41.0	Appointed	Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA
21 Oct 1878	51.7	Died	Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, USA

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Sylvester Horton Rosecrans
(VIAF: 2464155044862372520001; WikiData: Q7660792)
Bishop Sylvester Horton Rosecrans (born 5 Feb 1827, died 21 Oct 1878) Bishop of Columbus

Event Place
Birth Place Homer, OH, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop St. Peter in Chains, Cathedral, Cincinnati, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio
Death Place Columbus, Diocese of Columbus, Ohio

a priest for 25.3 years
a bishop for 16.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro †
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Baptist Purcell †
Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Martin John Spalding †
Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky
Bishop John Henry Luers †
Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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:
Bishop Nicholas Aloysius Gallagher † (1868)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Augustus Maria Bernard Anthony John Gebhard Toebbe † (1870)
Bishop Caspar Henry Borgess † (1870)
Archbishop Napoleon Joseph Perché † (1870)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Edward Fitzgerald † (1867)
Bishop Thomas Patrick Roger Foley † (1870)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Homer, OH, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio
Ordained Priest	Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	St. Peter in Chains, Cathedral, Cincinnati, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio
Death Place	Columbus, Diocese of Columbus, Ohio

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 216, and Page 462
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1862, Number 7
c1: CB, 16 May 2022

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