Bishop Ferdinand Rüegg †

Deceased

Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Oct 1847		Born
6 Nov 1870	23.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
27 Mar 1906	58.4	Selected	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
16 May 1906	58.5	Confirmed	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
10 Jun 1906	58.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
14 Oct 1913	65.9	Died	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

MicroData Summary
Ferdinand Rüegg
Bishop Ferdinand Rüegg
(born 20 Oct 1847, died 14 Oct 1913)
Bishop of Sankt Gallen

Event Place
Birth Place Goldingen
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Sankt Gallen, Diocese of Sankt Gallen

a priest for 42.9 years
a bishop for 7.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Sebastian Gebhard Messmer †
Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Johannes Fidelis Battaglia †
Bishop of Chur
Bishop Alfredo Peri-Morosini †
Titular Bishop of Arca in Phoenicia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Sebastian Gebhard Messmer † (1892)
Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Bishop John Joseph Frederick Otto Zardetti † (1889)
Bishop of Saint Cloud, Minnesota
Archbishop William Hickley Gross, C.Ss.R. † (1873)
Archbishop of Oregon City, Oregon
Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley † (1853)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Archbishop Gaetano Bedini † (1852)
Titular Archbishop of Thebae
Lodovico Cardinal Altieri † (1836)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Portico (Campitelli)
Pope Gregory XVI (1831)
(Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. †)
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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 Jakobus von Stammler † (1906)
Bishop Georg Schmid von Grüneck † (1908)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 121671071
WikiData: Q3742522

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1906, Number 35
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 12, Number 628

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