Bishop Nicholas Chrysostom Matz †

Deceased

Bishop of Denver, Colorado, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Apr 1850		Born
31 May 1874	24.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Colorado, USA
19 Aug 1887	37.3	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Denver, Colorado, USA
19 Aug 1887	37.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Telmissus
28 Oct 1887	37.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Telmissus
10 Jul 1889	39.2	Succeeded	Bishop of Denver, Colorado, USA
9 Aug 1917	67.3	Died	Bishop of Denver, Colorado, USA

MicroData Summary
Nicholas Chrysostom Matz
Bishop Nicholas Chrysostom Matz
(born 6 Apr 1850, died 9 Aug 1917)
Bishop of Denver

Event Place
Birth Place Munster, Diocese of Münster, Germany
Ordained Priest Denver, Vicariate Apostolic of Colorado
Ordained Bishop Immaculate Conception, Cathedral, Denver, Diocese of Denver, Colorado
Death Place Denver, Diocese of Denver, Colorado

a priest for 43.1 years
a bishop for 29.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Joseph Projectus Machebeuf (Macheboeuf) †
Titular Bishop of Epiphania in Cilicia
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Baptist (Jean-Baptiste) Salpointe †
Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Joseph Projectus Machebeuf (Macheboeuf) †
Bishop of Denver, Colorado
Assisted by:
Abbot Conrad Frowin, O.S.B.
Abbot of Order of Saint Benedict

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Baptist (Jean-Baptiste) Salpointe † (1869)
Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Bishop Louis-Charles Féron † (1834)
Bishop of Clermont
Archbishop Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen † (1817)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny † (1786)
Archbishop of Besançon
Bishop César-Guillaume de La Luzerne † (1770)
Bishop of Langres
Archbishop Christophe de Beaumont du Repaire † (1741)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Louis-Jacques Chapt de Rastignac † (1722)
Archbishop of Tours
Bishop Jean-François Salgues de Valderies de Lescure † (1699)
Bishop of Luçon
Archbishop Louis-Antoine de Noailles † (1679)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop François de Harlay de Champvallon † (1651)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Nicolò Guidi di Bagno † (1644)
Titular Archbishop of Athenae
Antonio (Marcello) Cardinal Barberini (Sr.), O.F.M. Cap. † (1625)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Bishop Laudivio Zacchia † (1605)
Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone
Pietro Cardinal Aldobrandini † (1604)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Clement VIII (1592)
(Ippolito Aldobrandini (Sr.) †)
Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza) † (1564)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Francesco Cardinal Pisani † (1527)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Alessandro Cardinal Farnese † (1519)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop John Baptist Pitaval † (1902)
Bishop John Henry Tihen † (1911)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q7025207

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 241, and Page 539
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1887, Number 57
c1: CB, 17 May 2022

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