Bishop Joseph Gregory Dwenger, C.Pp.S. †

Deceased

Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Apr 1837		Born
4 Sep 1859	22.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Precious Blood
15 Feb 1872	34.8	Appointed	Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
14 Apr 1872	35.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
22 Jan 1893	55.7	Died	Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

MicroData Summary
Joseph Gregory Dwenger
Bishop Joseph Gregory Dwenger C.Pp.S.
(born 7 Apr 1837, died 22 Jan 1893)
Bishop of Fort Wayne

Event Place
Birth Place Saint John's, OH, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio
Ordained Bishop St. Peter in Chains, Cathedral, Cincinnati, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio
Death Place Fort Wayne, Diocese of Fort Wayne, Indiana

a priest for 33.3 years
a bishop for 20.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop John Baptist Purcell †
Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Baptist Purcell †
Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Augustus Maria Bernard Anthony John Gebhard Toebbe †
Bishop of Covington, Kentucky
Bishop Caspar Henry Borgess †
Bishop of Detroit, Michigan

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Baptist Purcell † (1833)
Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Archbishop James Whitfield † (1828)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky
Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Archbishop of Ravenna
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 Rupert (Albert) Seidenbusch, O.S.B. † (1875)
Bishop Joseph (James) Rademacher † (1883)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 55855009
WikiData: Q6283586

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 597
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1872, Number 54

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