Bishop Thomas Jerome Welsh †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Dec 1921		Born
30 May 1946	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
18 Feb 1970	48.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
18 Feb 1970	48.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Inis Cathaig
2 Apr 1970	48.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Inis Cathaig
4 Jun 1974	52.4	Appointed	Bishop of Arlington, Virginia, USA
13 Aug 1974	52.6	Installed	Bishop of Arlington, Virginia, USA
3 Feb 1983	61.1	Appointed	Bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
21 Mar 1983	61.2	Installed	Bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
15 Dec 1997	75.9	Resigned	Bishop of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
19 Feb 2009	87.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

MicroData Summary for Thomas Jerome Welsh
(VIAF: 63634315; WikiData: Q2425115)
Bishop Thomas Jerome Welsh (born 20 Dec 1921, died 19 Feb 2009) Bishop Emeritus of Allentown

Event Place
Birth Place Weatherly
Ordained Priest Saints Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Philadelphia, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop Saints Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Philadelphia, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

a priest for 62.7 years
a bishop for 38.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Dennis Joseph Cardinal Dougherty †
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Principal Consecrator:
John Joseph Cardinal Krol †
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Gerald Vincent McDevitt †
Titular Bishop of Tigias
Bishop John Joseph Graham †
Titular Bishop of Sabrata

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

John Joseph Cardinal Krol † (1953)
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Alfred Andrew Schlert (1987)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop John Richard Keating † (1983)
John Patrick Cardinal Foley † (1984)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Weatherly
Ordained Priest	Saints Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Philadelphia, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ordained Bishop	Saints Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Philadelphia, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Source(s):

bd/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 139
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 200, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 9, Number 457
c1: CB, 10 May 2022

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