Bishop Leopold Schuster †

Deceased

Bishop of Seckau, Austria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Oct 1842		Born
9 Jul 1865	22.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Seckau, Austria
20 Oct 1893	50.9	Appointed	Bishop of Seckau, Austria
31 Dec 1893	51.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Seckau, Austria
18 Mar 1927	84.4	Died	Bishop of Seckau, Austria

MicroData Summary
Leopold Schuster
Bishop Leopold Schuster
(born 24 Oct 1842, died 18 Mar 1927)
Bishop of Seckau

Event Place
Birth Place St. Anna am Aigen
Ordained Bishop Salzburg, Archdiocese of Salzburg

a priest for 61.6 years
a bishop for 33.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Johann Evangelist Haller †
Archbishop of Salzburg
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Josephus Markus (Josef) Kahn †
Bishop of Gurk
Bishop Mihael Napotnik †
Bishop of Lavant

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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):

Vatican Library: 495/299612
VIAF: 47137225
WikiData: Q1474321

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 508
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1893, Number 73

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