Bishop William Francis Kupfer, M.M. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Taichung

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Jan 1909		Born	Brooklyn, NY, USA
1928	18.9	Professed	Member of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
11 Jun 1933	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America
26 Jan 1951	42.0	Appointed	Prefect of Taichung, Taiwan
16 Apr 1962	53.2	Appointed	Bishop of Taichung, Taiwan
25 Jul 1962	53.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Taichung, Taiwan
25 Jun 1986	77.4	Retired	Bishop of Taichung, Taiwan
2 Jan 1998	88.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Taichung, Taiwan

a priest for 64.6 years
a bishop for 35.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop John William Comber, M.M. †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Walter William Curtis †
Archbishop John Joseph Maguire †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop William Francis Kupfer, M.M. † (1962)
Bishop John William Comber, M.M. † (1959)
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman † (1932)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (1762)
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 †

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