Diocesan Priests Who Became Bishops
The following men began their service as priests in Peoria before being appointed bishops elsewhere:
- † Gerald Thomas Bergan - 1934, Bishop of Des Moines; 1948 Archbishop of Omaha
- † Fulton J. Sheen – appointed auxiliary bishop of New York in 1951; ordained a bishop on June 11, 1951; appointed bishop of Rochester in 1966; resigned in 1969; then elevated to titular archbishop; buried in crypt of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
- Jan Vokál - appointed Bishop of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
† = deceased
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