Bishop Francis Silas Marean Chatard †

Deceased

Bishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Motto: Post Tenebras Spero Lucem

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Dec 1834		Born
14 Jun 1862	27.5	Ordained Priest	Priest
1868¹	33.0	Appointed	Rector of the Pontifical North American College
26 Mar 1878	43.2	Appointed	Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana, USA
12 May 1878	43.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana, USA
11 Aug 1878	43.6	Installed	Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana, USA
28 Mar 1898	63.2	Appointed	Bishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
7 Sep 1918	83.7	Died	Bishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Francis Silas Marean Chatard
Bishop Francis Silas Marean Chatard
(born 13 Dec 1834, died 7 Sep 1918)
Bishop of Indianapolis

Event Place
Birth Place Baltimore, MD, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop North American, College, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Indianapolis, Diocese of Indianapolis, Indiana

a priest for 56.2 years
a bishop for 40.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro †
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Principal Consecrator:
Alessandro Cardinal Franchi †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Camillo Santori †
Bishop of Fano
Bishop Odoardo Agnelli †
Titular Bishop of Troas

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Alessandro Cardinal Franchi † (1856)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Charles Edward McDonnell † (1878)
Bishop Joseph Chartrand † (1892)
Bishop Emmanuel Boleslaus Ledvina † (1893)
Archbishop Albert Thomas Daeger, O.F.M. † (1896)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Martin Marty, O.S.B. † (1880)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Patrick William Riordan † (1883)
Bishop John Frederick Ignatius Horstmann † (1892)
Bishop Charles Edward McDonnell † (1892)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 89437596
WikiData: Q7514128

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 320, and Page 592
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1878, Number 20
c1: CB, 14 May 2022

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