Bishop Josef Altenweisel †

Deceased

Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Dec 1851		Born
10 Jun 1876	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salzburg, Austria
6 May 1904	52.4	Selected	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
2 Jul 1904	52.5	Confirmed	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
11 Sep 1904	52.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
26 Jun 1912³	60.5	Died	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Josef Altenweisel
Bishop Josef Altenweisel
(born 6 Dec 1851, died 26 Jun 1912)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}

Event Place
Birth Place Niederdorf

a priest for 36.0 years
a bishop for 7.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Diomede Panici †
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Archbishop Denis (Alphonse) Steyaert, O.C.D. †
Titular Archbishop of Damascus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Ordained Priest:
Father Marian Joseph Tumler, O.T. † (1910)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Franz Egger † (1908)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 168971916
WikiData: Q14906230

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1904, Number 43
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 93
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 5, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 16, Number 847, Ascendance

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