Archbishop Karl Berg †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Salzburg, Austria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Dec 1908		Born
29 Oct 1933	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salzburg, Austria
26 Dec 1972	63.9	Selected	Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria
9 Jan 1973	64.0	Confirmed	Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria
25 Feb 1973	64.1	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria
5 Sep 1988	79.6	Retired	Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria
1 Sep 1997	88.6	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Salzburg, Austria

MicroData Summary
Karl Berg
Archbishop Karl Berg
(born 27 Dec 1908, died 1 Sep 1997)
Archbishop Emeritus of Salzburg

Event Place
Birth Place Radstadt
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Salzburg, Archdiocese of Salzburg

a priest for 63.8 years
a bishop for 24.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Andreas Rohracher †
Titular Archbishop of Vibo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Paulus Rusch †
Bishop of Innsbruck
Bishop Josef Köstner †
Bishop of Gurk

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Andreas Rohracher † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Vibo
Bishop Adam Hefter † (1915)
Bishop of Gurk
Archbishop Balthasar Kaltner † (1901)
Archbishop of Salzburg
Archbishop Johannes Baptist Katschthaler † (1891)
Archbishop of Salzburg
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Egon Kapellari (1982)
Archbishop Georg Eder † (1989)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Hans Hermann Cardinal Groër, O.S.B. † (1986)
Bishop Alfred Kostelecky † (1986)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 27879202
WikiData: Q45451

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 151, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 20, Number 1,071

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