Bishop William O’Hara †

Deceased

Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Apr 1816		Born
21 Dec 1842	26.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Mar 1868	51.8	Appointed	Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
12 Jul 1868	52.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
3 Feb 1899	82.8	Died	Bishop of Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA

MicroData Summary
William O’Hara
Bishop William O’Hara
(born 14 Apr 1816, died 3 Feb 1899)
Bishop of Scranton

First Vatican Council: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Dungiven, Ireland
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Philadelphia, Diocese of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

a priest for 56.1 years
a bishop for 30.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop James Frederick Bryan Wood †
Bishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop William Henry Elder †
Bishop of Natchez, Mississippi
Bishop Patrick Neeson Lynch †
Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop James Frederick Bryan Wood † (1857)
Bishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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 Eugene Augustine Garvey † (1869)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas McGovern † (1888)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop James O’Connor † (1876)
Bishop John Frederick Ignatius Horstmann † (1892)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 232387354
WikiData: Q8016247

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 505
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1868, Number 27

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