Bishop Sidney Matthew Metzger †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of El Paso, Texas

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Jul 1902		Born	Fredericksburg, TX
3 Apr 1926	23.7	Ordained Priest	Priest
5 Jan 1940	37.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
5 Jan 1940	37.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Birtha
10 Apr 1940	37.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Birtha
26 Dec 1941	39.5	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA
29 Nov 1942	40.4	Succeeded	Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA
17 Mar 1978	75.7	Retired	Bishop of El Paso, Texas, USA
12 Apr 1986	83.8	Died	Bishop Emeritus of El Paso, Texas, USA

a priest for 60.0 years
a bishop for 46.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Arthur Jerome Drossaerts †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Rudolph Aloysius Gerken †
Bishop Mariano Simon Garriga †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Sidney Matthew Metzger † (1940)
Archbishop Arthur Jerome Drossaerts † (1918)
Giovanni Vincenzo Cardinal Bonzano † (1912)
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard † (1872)
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galeffi † (1819)
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
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:
Bishop Laurence Julius FitzSimon †
Bishop John Louis Morkovsky †
Bishop Charles Victor Grahmann

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