Bishop Hansjörg Hofer

Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg, Austria

Titular Bishop of Abziri

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Apr 1952		Born
29 Jun 1976	24.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salzburg, Austria
31 May 2017	65.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg, Austria
31 May 2017	65.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Abziri
9 Jul 2017	65.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Abziri

MicroData Summary
Hansjörg Hofer
Bishop Hansjörg Hofer
(born 14 Apr 1952)
Auxiliary Bishop of Salzburg

Event Place
Birth Place Stumm im Zillertal, Archdiocese of Salzburg
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Salzburg, Archdiocese of Salzburg

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Salzburg.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Franz Lackner, O.F.M.
Archbishop of Salzburg
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Alois Kothgasser, S.D.B. †
Archbishop Emeritus of Salzburg
Bishop Benno Elbs
Bishop of Feldkirch

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Franz Lackner, O.F.M. (2002)
Archbishop of Salzburg
Bishop Egon Kapellari (1982)
Bishop of Graz-Seckau
Archbishop Karl Berg † (1973)
Archbishop of Salzburg
Archbishop Andreas Rohracher † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Vibo
Bishop Adam Hefter † (1915)
Bishop of Gurk
Archbishop Balthasar Kaltner † (1901)
Archbishop of Salzburg
Archbishop Johannes Baptist Katschthaler † (1891)
Archbishop of Salzburg
Archbishop Johann Evangelist Haller † (1874)
Archbishop of Salzburg
Maximilian Joseph Cardinal von Tarnóczy † (1851)
Archbishop of Salzburg
Friedrich Johann Joseph Cölestin zu Cardinal von Schwarzenberg † (1836)
Archbishop of Praha {Prague}
Bishop Bl. Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleitheim † (1832)
Bishop of Trento
Bishop Bernhard Galura † (1820)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}
Bishop Karl Franz von Lodron † (1792)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}
Bishop Dionys von Rost † (1777)
Bishop of Chur
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Caprara Montecuccoli † (1766)
Titular Archbishop of Iconium
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

External Link(s):

VIAF: 14146824973907631298
WikiData: Q1583866

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 31 May 2017
ob: CB, 1 Jun 2017
c2+: CB, 30 Jun 2017
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 233, Number 19,486

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