Bishop Johannes von Leiß (Leiss) †

Deceased

Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Jun 1821		Born
25 Jul 1845	24.1	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
27 Jul 1845	24.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
16 Jun 1879	57.9	Selected	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
27 Feb 1880	58.6	Confirmed	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
4 Apr 1880	58.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
23 Apr 1884	62.8	Died	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy

MicroData Summary
Johannes von Leiß (Leiss)
Bishop Johannes von Leiß (Leiss)
(born 18 Jun 1821, died 23 Apr 1884)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}

Event Place
Birth Place Innsbruck
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Brixen, Diocese of Brixen {Bressanone}

a priest for 38.7 years
a bishop for 4.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Albert (Franz de Paula) Eder, O.S.B. †
Archbishop of Salzburg
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Giovanni Giacomo della Bona †
Bishop of Trento
Bishop Johann Nepomucene Amberg †
Titular Bishop of Europus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Albert (Franz de Paula) Eder, O.S.B. † (1876)
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Thomas Francis Brennan † (1880)
Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Simon Aichner † (1882)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 2143152744518427850000
WikiData: Q15436751

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 159
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1880, Number 21

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