Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. †

Deceased

Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Motto: In Cruce Salus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Nov 1763		Born
1 Jun 1788	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Priests of Saint Sulpice
8 Apr 1808	44.4	Appointed	Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
4 Nov 1810	46.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
25 Aug 1832	68.7	Resigned	Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
17 Mar 1833	69.3	Appointed	Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky, USA
11 Feb 1850	86.2	Died	Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

MicroData Summary
Benedict Joseph Flaget
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget P.S.S.
(born 7 Nov 1763, died 11 Feb 1850)
Bishop of Louisville

Event Place
Birth Place Contournat, Diocese of Clermont, France
Ordained Priest Issy, France
Ordained Bishop St. Patrick, Church, Fell’s Point, MD, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Death Place Louisville, Diocese of Louisville, Kentucky
Buried Place (Original) Assumption, Cathedral, Louisville, Diocese of Louisville, Kentucky

a priest for 61.6 years
a bishop for 39.2 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Antoine-Eléonore-Léon Le Clerc de Juigné †
Archbishop of Paris
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Carroll †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Lefebvre de Cheverus †
Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts
Bishop Michael Francis Egan, O.F.M. Rec. †
Bishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 Guy Ignatius Chabrat, P.S.S. † (1811)
Bishop Richard Pius Miles, O.P. † (1816)
Father Auguste Jeanjean † (1818)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop John Baptist Mary David, P.S.S. † (1819)
Bishop Edward Dominic Fenwick, O.P. † (1822)
Archbishop James Whitfield † (1828)
Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick † (1830)
Bishop Guy Ignatius Chabrat, P.S.S. † (1834)
Bishop Simon William Gabriel Bruté de Rémur † (1834)
Archbishop Martin John Spalding † (1848)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Samuel Eccleston, P.S.S. † (1834)
Assisted:
Bishop Michael Francis Egan, O.F.M. Rec. † (1810)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Contournat, Diocese of Clermont, France
Ordained Priest	Issy, France
Ordained Bishop	St. Patrick, Church, Fell’s Point, MD, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Death Place	Louisville, Diocese of Louisville, Kentucky
Buried Place (Original)	Assumption, Cathedral, Louisville, Diocese of Louisville, Kentucky

External Link(s):

Find a Grave (Grave): 6943084
VIAF: 4036934
WikiData: Q4887287

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1810, Number 11
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 105
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 9, Number 453, Ascendance
c3: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 96, Additions/Corrections (front)
c1: CB, 17 May 2022

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