Bishop Karl Augustinus Kilian †

Deceased

Bishop of Limburg, Germany

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Nov 1856		Born
29 Jun 1881	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Limburg, Germany
22 Jan 1913	56.2	Selected	Bishop of Limburg, Germany
15 Jul 1913	56.7	Confirmed	Bishop of Limburg, Germany
8 Sep 1913	56.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Limburg, Germany
30 Oct 1930	73.9	Died	Bishop of Limburg, Germany

MicroData Summary
Karl Augustinus Kilian
Bishop Karl Augustinus Kilian
(born 1 Nov 1856, died 30 Oct 1930)
Bishop of Limburg

Event Place
Birth Place Eltville

a priest for 49.3 years
a bishop for 17.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Thomas Nörber †
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Georg Heinrich Maria Kirstein †
Bishop of Mainz
Bishop Josef Damian Schmitt †
Bishop of Fulda

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Thomas Nörber † (1898)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Bishop Paul Leopold Haffner † (1886)
Bishop of Mainz
Bishop Johannes Christian Roos † (1885)
Bishop of Limburg
Bishop Georg von Kopp † (1881)
Bishop of Fulda
Bishop Daniel Wilhelm Sommerwerk (Jacobi) † (1871)
Bishop of Hildesheim
Bishop Johannes Heinrich Beckmann † (1866)
Bishop of Osnabrück
Archbishop Paul Ludolf Melchers, S.J. † (1858)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Bishop Eduard Jakob Wedekin † (1850)
Bishop of Hildesheim
Johannes Cardinal von Geissel † (1837)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Joseph Maria Johann Nepomuk von Fraunberg † (1821)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Francesco Serra Cassano † (1818)
Titular Archbishop of Nicaea
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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 Christian Schreiber † (1921)
Archbishop Joseph Gotthardt, O.M.I. † (1926)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 59829351
WikiData: Q768885

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 168, Number 14,214
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1913, Number 48

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