Bishop James Daniel Niedergeses †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Feb 1917		Born
20 May 1944	27.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Nashville, Tennessee, USA
8 Apr 1975	58.1	Appointed	Bishop of Nashville, Tennessee, USA
20 May 1975	58.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Nashville, Tennessee, USA
13 Oct 1992	75.6	Retired	Bishop of Nashville, Tennessee, USA
16 Nov 2007	90.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Nashville, Tennessee, USA

MicroData Summary for James Daniel Niedergeses
(WikiData: Q1680246)
Bishop James Daniel Niedergeses (born 2 Feb 1917, died 16 Nov 2007) Bishop Emeritus of Nashville

Event Place
Birth Place Lawrenceburg, Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee
Ordained Priest Nashville, Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee
Ordained Bishop Opryland Auditorium, Nashville, Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee
Death Place Nashville, Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee
Buried Place (Original) Calvary, Cemetery, Lawrenceburg, Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee

a priest for 63.4 years
a bishop for 32.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop William Lawrence Adrian †
Bishop of Nashville, Tennessee
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Thomas Joseph McDonough †
Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Joseph Aloysius Durick †
Bishop Emeritus of Nashville, Tennessee
Bishop Francis Raymond Shea †
Bishop of Evansville, Indiana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Thomas Joseph McDonough † (1947)
Archbishop of Louisville, Kentucky
Dennis Joseph Cardinal Dougherty † (1903)
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Francesco di Paolo Cardinal Satolli † (1888)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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:
Bishop James Mark Beckman (1990)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Anthony Joseph O’Connell † (1988)
Bishop David Raymond Choby † (2006)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Lawrenceburg, Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee
Ordained Priest	Nashville, Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee
Ordained Bishop	Opryland Auditorium, Nashville, Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee
Death Place	Nashville, Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee
Buried Place (Original)	Calvary, Cemetery, Lawrenceburg, Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee

Source(s):

d: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 117, Number 10,445
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 191, Necrology (back)
c1: CB, 18 May 2022

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