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Bishop Hubert Bucher

Bishop Emeritus of Bethlehem

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Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Bethlehem. a priest for years a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator: Archbishop Peter Fanyana John Butelezi, O.M.I. † Principal Co-Consecrators: Archbishop Joseph Patrick Fitzgerald, O.M.I. † Bishop Vinzenz Guggenberger †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Bishop Hubert Bucher (1977) Archbishop Peter Fanyana John Butelezi, O.M.I. † (1972) Archbishop Alfredo Poledrini † (1965) Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933) Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920) Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911) Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884) Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871) Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828) Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823) Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788) Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777) Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762) Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743) Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724) Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675) Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666) Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630) Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622) Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621) Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604) Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586) Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566) Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Ordained Priest: Bishop Xolelo Thaddaeus Kumalo Principal Consecrator of: Bishop Xolelo Thaddaeus Kumalo Principal Co-Consecrator of: Bishop Johannes Ludgerus Bonaventure Brenninkmeijer, O.P. † Archbishop Bernard Mohlalisi, O.M.I. Archbishop Stephen Brislin Bishop Jan de Groef, M. Afr.