Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter †

Deceased

Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Cardinal-Priest of Santissimo Redentore e Sant’Alfonso in Via Merulana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Jul 1892		Born
30 May 1917	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
3 Feb 1933	40.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
3 Feb 1933	40.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Hippos
28 Mar 1933	40.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Hippos
24 Mar 1934	41.6	Appointed	Bishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
11 Nov 1944	52.3	Appointed	Archbishop of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
20 Jul 1946	54.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
16 Jan 1961	68.4	Elevated to Cardinal
16 Jan 1961	68.4	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santissimo Redentore e Sant’Alfonso in Via Merulana
10 Jun 1967	74.8	Died	Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

MicroData Summary for Joseph Elmer Ritter
(VIAF: 100793089; WikiData: Q1706916)
Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter (born 20 Jul 1892, died 10 Jun 1967) Archbishop of Saint Louis

Consistory - 1961: Created Cardinal
Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Conclave - 1963: Participated
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place New Albany, IN

a priest for 50.0 years
a bishop for 34.2 years
a cardinal for 6.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Joseph Chartrand †
Titular Bishop of Flavias
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Joseph Chartrand †
Bishop of Indianapolis, Indiana
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alphonse John Smith †
Bishop of Nashville, Tennessee
Bishop Emmanuel Boleslaus Ledvina †
Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joseph Chartrand † (1910)
Bishop of Indianapolis, Indiana
Archbishop Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Falconio, O.F.M. Ref. † (1892)
Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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:
Archbishop Edward Thomas O’Meara † (1946)
Bishop Andrés Bernardo (Andrew Bernard) Schierhoff † (1948)
Bishop Joseph Alphonse McNicholas † (1949)
Bishop John Nicholas Wurm † (1954)
Bishop John Joseph Leibrecht (1956)
Bishop Edward Joseph O’Donnell † (1957)
Bishop Paul Albert Zipfel † (1961)
Bishop Luis Morgan (Aloysius) Casey † (1962)
Bishop Robert Joseph Hermann (1963)
Bishop Robert Joseph Kurtz, C. R. (1967)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Mark Kenny Carroll † (1947)
John Patrick Cardinal Cody † (1947)
Bishop Leo John Steck † (1948)
Bishop David Francis Hickey, S.J. † (1948)
Bishop Charles Herman Helmsing † (1949)
Archbishop Leo Christopher Byrne † (1954)
Bishop Glennon Patrick Flavin † (1957)
Bishop George Joseph Gottwald † (1961)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop James Hugh Ryan † (1933)
John Francis Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C. † (1940)
Bishop Bernard Theodore Espelage, O.F.M. † (1940)

Event	Place
Birth Place	New Albany, IN

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1933, Number 16
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 6, Number 290, Ascendance

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