Bishop Josef Köstner †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Gurk

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Mar 1906		Born	Klagenfurt
25 Oct 1931	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Gurk, Austria
25 Jun 1945	39.3	Appointed	Bishop of Gurk, Austria
5 Aug 1945	39.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Gurk, Austria
25 Apr 1981	75.1	Retired	Bishop of Gurk, Austria
1 Jan 1982	75.8	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Gurk, Austria

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

a priest for 50.2 years
a bishop for 36.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Andreas Rohracher †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Adam Hefter †
Archbishop Ivan Šarić †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Josef Köstner † (1945)
Archbishop Andreas Rohracher † (1933)
Archbishop Adam Hefter † (1915)
Archbishop Balthasar Kaltner † (1901)
Johannes Baptist Cardinal Katschthaler † (1891)
Johann Evangelist Cardinal Haller † (1874)
Maximilian Joseph Cardinal von Tarnóczy † (1851)
Friedrich Johann Joseph Cölestin zu Cardinal von Schwarzenberg † (1836)
Bishop Bl. Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleitheim † (1832)
Bishop Bernhard Galura † (1820)
Bishop Karl Franz von Lodron † (1792)
Bishop Dionys von Rost † (1777)
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Caprara Montecuccoli † (1766)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Eduard Macheiner †
Bishop Johann Weber
Archbishop Karl Berg †

Source(s):

b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1945, Number 39

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