Bishop Joseph Ambühl †

Deceased

Bishop of Basel e Lugano, Switzerland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Jan 1873		Born
24 Jul 1898	25.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Basel e Lugano, Switzerland
2 Jun 1925	52.4	Selected	Bishop of Basel e Lugano, Switzerland
30 Jun 1925	52.4	Confirmed	Bishop of Basel e Lugano, Switzerland
27 Sep 1925	52.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Basel e Lugano, Switzerland
17 Oct 1936	63.7	Died	Bishop of Basel e Lugano, Switzerland

MicroData Summary
Joseph Ambühl
Bishop Joseph Ambühl
(born 3 Jan 1873, died 17 Oct 1936)
Bishop of Basel e Lugano

Event Place
Birth Place Luzern
Ordained Bishop Soleure
Death Place Solothurn

a priest for 38.2 years
a bishop for 11.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Luigi Maglione †
Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Palaestina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Georg Schmid von Grüneck †
Bishop of Chur
Bishop Robert Bürkler †
Bishop of Sankt Gallen

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Luigi Maglione † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Palaestina
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Alois Scheiwiler † (1930)
Bishop Bernard Alexis Burquier, C.R.A. † (1932)
Bishop Joachim (Alois) Ammann, O.S.B. † (1934)
Bishop Gallus (Bernhard) Steiger, O.S.B. † (1934)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/324529
VIAF: 255722774
WikiData: Q1706461

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1925, Number 52

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