Bishop John Henry Luers †

Deceased

Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Sep 1819		Born	Lutten, Germany
11 Nov 1846	27.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
22 Sep 1857	38.0	Appointed	Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
10 Jan 1858	38.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
29 Jun 1871	51.8	Died	Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

a priest for 24.6 years
a bishop for 13.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Baptist Purcell †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jacques-Maurice des Landes d’Aussac De Saint Palais †
Bishop George Aloysius Carrell, S.J. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Henry Luers † (1858)
Archbishop John Baptist Purcell † (1833)
Archbishop James Whitfield † (1828)
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Peter Joseph Baltes †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Sylvester Horton Rosecrans †
Bishop Augustus Maria Bernard Anthony John Gebhard Toebbe †
Bishop Caspar Henry Borgess †

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