Bishop Thomas Joseph Shahan †

Deceased

Titular Bishop of Germanicopolis

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Sep 1857		Born
3 Jun 1882	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Hartford, Connecticut, USA
1909²	51.3	Appointed	Rector of the Catholic University of America
24 Jul 1914	56.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Germanicopolis
15 Nov 1914	57.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Germanicopolis
1927²	69.3	Resigned	Rector of the Catholic University of America
9 Mar 1932	74.4	Died	Titular Bishop of Germanicopolis

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Thomas Joseph Shahan
Bishop Thomas Joseph Shahan
(born 11 Sep 1857, died 9 Mar 1932)
Titular Bishop of Germanicopolis

Event Place
Birth Place Manchester, NH, Diocese of Portland, Maine, USA
Ordained Bishop Assumption, Cathedral, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Death Place Washington, DC, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Buried Place (Original) Immaculate Conception, National, Shrine, Washington, DC, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland, USA

a priest for 49.7 years
a bishop for 17.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Principal Consecrator:
James Cardinal Gibbons †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Denis Joseph O’Connell †
Bishop of Richmond, Virginia
Bishop John Joseph Nilan †
Bishop of Hartford, Connecticut

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

James Cardinal Gibbons † (1868)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Archbishop Martin John Spalding † (1848)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Bishop of Louisville, 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:
Father Paul Adam Curran, O.P. † (1918)
Bishop Thomas James Wade, S.M. † (1922)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop John Gregory Murray † (1920)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Manchester, NH, Diocese of Portland, Maine, USA
Ordained Bishop	Assumption, Cathedral, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Death Place	Washington, DC, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Buried Place (Original)	Immaculate Conception, National, Shrine, Washington, DC, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland, USA

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/256253
VIAF: 48392202
WikiData: Q2114674

Source(s):

ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 117
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1914, Number 65
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 183

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