Bishop Agostino Steffani †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic of Upper and Lower Saxony (Hanover, Northern Germany), Germany

Titular Bishop of Spiga(z) (or Pegae)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Jul 1654		Born
1680	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Freising, Germany
13 Sep 1706	52.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Spiga(z) (or Pegae)
2 Jan 1707	52.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Spiga(z) (or Pegae)
6 Apr 1709	54.6	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Upper and Lower Saxony (Hanover, Northern Germany), Germany
1723	68.4	Resigned	Vicar Apostolic of Upper and Lower Saxony (Hanover, Northern Germany), Germany
27 May 1726	71.8	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Upper and Lower Saxony (Hanover, Northern Germany), Germany
12 Feb 1728	73.5	Died	Vicar Apostolic of Upper and Lower Saxony (Hanover, Northern Germany), Germany

MicroData Summary for Agostino Steffani
(VIAF: 64193200; WikiData: Q395725)
Bishop Agostino Steffani (born 25 Jul 1654, died 12 Feb 1728) Vicar Apostolic of Upper and Lower Saxony (Hanover, Northern Germany)

Event Place
Birth Place Castelfranco Veneto
Ordained Bishop Bamberg, Diocese of Bamberg

a priest for 48.1 years
a bishop for 21.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn †
Archbishop of Mainz

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn † (1695)
Archbishop of Mainz
Bishop Matthias Starck † (1681)
Titular Bishop of Coronea
Archbishop Anselm Franz von Ingelheim † (1680)
Archbishop of Mainz
Bishop Johann Heinrich von Anethan † (1665)
Titular Bishop of Hierapolis in Isauria
Archbishop Max Heinrich von Bayern † (1651)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Bishop Fabio Chigi † (1635)
Bishop of Nardò
Bishop Miguel Juan Balaguer Camarasa, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1635)
Bishop of Malta
Francesco Maria Cardinal Brancaccio † (1627)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Cosimo Cardinal de Torres † (1621)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio
Maffeo Cardinal Barberini † (1604)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio
Patriarch Fabio Biondi (Blondus de Montealto) † (1588)
Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
Scipione Cardinal Gonzaga † (1585)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo
Iñigo Cardinal Avalos de Aragón, O.S. † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
Pope Pius V (1556)
(St. Antonio (Michele) Ghislieri, O.P. †)
Giovanni Michele Cardinal Saraceni † (1536)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Antonio Cardinal Sanseverino, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1531)
Archbishop of Taranto
Pope Clement VII (1517)
(Giulio de’ Medici †)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Wilhelm Hermann Ignaz Ferdinand von Wolf-Metternich zu Gracht † (1721)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Castelfranco Veneto
Ordained Bishop	Bamberg, Diocese of Bamberg

Source(s):

b: Die Bischöfe des Heiligen Römischen Reiches
b: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1707
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Number 16,838
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 361
b/c2: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1707, Number 3
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 61, Number 4,631

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