James Cardinal Gibbons †

Deceased

Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Jul 1834		Born
30 Jun 1861	26.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
3 Mar 1868	33.6	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina, USA
3 Mar 1868	33.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Adramyttium
16 Aug 1868	34.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Adramyttium
1 Nov 1868	34.2	Installed	Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina, USA
30 Jul 1872	38.0	Appointed	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
20 Oct 1872	38.2	Installed	Bishop of Richmond, Virginia, USA
29 May 1877	42.8	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
29 May 1877	42.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Ionopolis
3 Oct 1877	43.1	Succeeded	Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA
7 Jun 1886	51.8	Elevated to Cardinal
17 Mar 1887	52.6	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
24 Mar 1921	86.6	Died	Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, USA

MicroData Summary
James Gibbons
James Cardinal Gibbons
(born 23 Jul 1834, died 24 Mar 1921)
Archbishop of Baltimore

First Vatican Council: Council Father
Consistory - 1886: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1903: Participated
Conclave - 1914: Unable to Participate

Event Place
Birth Place Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Priest St. Mary's, Seminary, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Bishop Assumption, Cathedral, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Death Place Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Buried Place (Original) Cathedral, Crypt, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland

a priest for 59.7 years
a bishop for 52.6 years
a cardinal for 34.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Francis Patrick Kenrick †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Martin John Spalding †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Patrick Neeson Lynch †
Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina
Bishop Michael (Miguel) Domenec, C.M. †
Bishop of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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:
Bishop Benjamin Joseph Keiley † (1873)
Archbishop George Thomas Montgomery † (1879)
Bishop Patrick James Donahue † (1885)
Bishop Joseph Raphael John Crimont, S.J. † (1888)
Bishop Joseph Aloysius Charles Murphy, S.J. † (1888)
Bishop William Thomas B. Russell † (1889)
Bishop John Joseph Collins, S.J. † (1891)
Father John Joseph Brown, S.J. † (1896)
Archbishop John Mark Gannon † (1901)
Bishop John Michael McNamara † (1902)
Bishop Joseph Nicholas Dinand, S.J. † (1903)
Bishop William Francis O’Hare, S.J. † (1903)
Bishop Peter Leo Ireton † (1906)
Bishop Joseph Clement Willging † (1908)
Bishop Thomas Addis Emmet, S.J. † (1909)
Archbishop Thomas Joseph Toolen † (1910)
Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop John Joseph Keane † (1878)
Archbishop Francis August Anthony Joseph Janssens † (1881)
Bishop Henry Pinckney Northrop † (1882)
Bishop Alphonse Joseph Glorieux † (1885)
Bishop Jeremiah O’Sullivan † (1885)
Bishop Alfred Allen Paul Curtis † (1886)
Bishop Leo Michael Haid (Hite), O.S.B. † (1888)
Bishop John Samuel Foley † (1888)
Bishop Augustine Van de Vyver † (1889)
Archbishop Placide Louis Chapelle † (1891)
Bishop Patrick James Donahue † (1894)
Bishop John James Joseph Monaghan † (1897)
Bishop Edward Patrick Allen † (1897)
Bishop Benjamin Joseph Keiley † (1900)
Bishop Henry Regis Granjon † (1900)
Bishop Thomas James Conaty † (1901)
Bishop William John Kenny † (1902)
Bishop Denis Joseph O’Connell † (1908)
Bishop Owen Patrick Bernard Corrigan † (1909)
Bishop Edward Denis Kelly † (1911)
Bishop Thomas Joseph Shahan † (1914)
Bishop William Thomas B. Russell † (1917)
Bishop William Turner † (1919)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop William Hickley Gross, C.SS.R. † (1873)
Bishop Anthony Dominic Ambrose Pellicer † (1874)
Archbishop John Joseph Kain † (1875)
Archbishop John Lancaster Spalding † (1877)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Priest	St. Mary's, Seminary, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Ordained Bishop	Assumption, Cathedral, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Death Place	Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland
Buried Place (Original)	Cathedral, Crypt, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland

External Link(s):

VIAF: 68922932
WikiData: Q712605

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 75, and Page 140
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 323, and Page 482
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 51
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 7 Jun 1886
b/c2 : Les Ordinations �piscopales, Year 1868, Number 31
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 9, Number 453, Ascendance

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