Bishop James Ryan †

Deceased

Bishop of Alton, Illinois, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Jun 1848		Born
24 Dec 1871	23.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
28 Feb 1888	39.6	Appointed	Bishop of Alton, Illinois, USA
1 May 1888	39.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Alton, Illinois, USA
2 Jul 1923	75.0	Died	Bishop of Alton, Illinois, USA

MicroData Summary for James Ryan
(WikiData: Q6142581)
Bishop James Ryan (born 17 Jun 1848, died 2 Jul 1923) Bishop of Alton

Event Place
Birth Place Farnaybridge, Thurles, Archdiocese of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland
Ordained Priest Louisville, Diocese of Louisville, Kentucky
Ordained Bishop SS. Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Alton, Diocese of Alton, Illinois
Death Place Alton, Diocese of Alton, Illinois

a priest for 51.5 years
a bishop for 35.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop William George McCloskey †
Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop John Lancaster Spalding †
Bishop of Peoria, Illinois
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop William George McCloskey †
Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky
Bishop John Janssen †
Bishop of Belleville, Illinois

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Lancaster Spalding † (1877)
Bishop of Peoria, Illinois
John Cardinal McCloskey † (1844)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Bishop John Joseph Hughes † (1838)
Bishop of New York, New York
Bishop John Dubois, P.S.S. † (1826)
Bishop of New York, New York
Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal, P.S.S. † (1817)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Lefebvre de Cheverus † (1810)
Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Edward Joseph Dunne † (1893)
Bishop Peter Joseph O’Reilly † (1900)
Bishop Peter James Muldoon † (1901)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Farnaybridge, Thurles, Archdiocese of Cashel (-Emly), Ireland
Ordained Priest	Louisville, Diocese of Louisville, Kentucky
Ordained Bishop	SS. Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Alton, Diocese of Alton, Illinois
Death Place	Alton, Diocese of Alton, Illinois

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 91
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 49
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1888, Number 16
c1: CB, 17 May 2022

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