Bishop Richard Vincent Whelan †

Deceased

Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Jan 1809		Born
1 May 1831	22.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Richmond, Virginia, USA
15 Dec 1840	31.8	Appointed	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
21 Mar 1841	32.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
23 Jul 1850	41.4	Appointed	Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
8 Dec 1850	41.8	Installed	Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA
7 Jul 1874	65.4	Died	Bishop of Wheeling, West Virginia, USA

MicroData Summary for Richard Vincent Whelan
(WikiData: Q7329672)
Bishop Richard Vincent Whelan (born 28 Jan 1809, died 7 Jul 1874) Bishop of Wheeling

First Vatican Council: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Baltimore, MD, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Priest Versailles, Diocese of Versailles, France
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland

a priest for 43.1 years
a bishop for 33.2 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Jean-François-Étienne Borderies †
Bishop of Versailles
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Samuel Eccleston, P.S.S. †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Benedict Joseph Fenwick, S.J. †
Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts
Bishop John Joseph Hughes †
Titular Bishop of Basilinopolis

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Samuel Eccleston, P.S.S. † (1834)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
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 Caspar Henry Borgess † (1848)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
John Cardinal McCloskey † (1844)
Bishop William J. Quarter † (1844)
Bishop Andrew Byrne † (1844)
Bishop William Barber Tyler † (1844)
Bishop John Bernard Fitzpatrick † (1844)
Bishop Louis Amadeus Rappe † (1847)
Archbishop James Frederick Bryan Wood † (1857)
Bishop Michael (Miguel) Domenec, C.M. † (1860)
Bishop Thomas Albert Andrew Becker † (1868)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Baltimore, MD, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Priest	Versailles, Diocese of Versailles, France
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 598
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 323
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1841, Number 10
c1: CB, 13 May 2022

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