Bishop Charles Roman Koester †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Titular Bishop of Suacia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Sep 1915		Born
20 Dec 1941	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
2 Jan 1971	55.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
2 Jan 1971	55.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Suacia
11 Feb 1971	55.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Suacia
10 Sep 1991	75.9	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
24 Dec 1997	82.2	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

MicroData Summary for Charles Roman Koester
(WikiData: Q16013873)
Bishop Charles Roman Koester (born 16 Sep 1915, died 24 Dec 1997) Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Saint Louis

Event Place
Birth Place Jefferson City, MO
Ordained Priest Saint Louis, Cathedral, Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Bishop Saint Louis, Cathedral, Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri

a priest for 56.0 years
a bishop for 26.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop John Joseph Glennon †
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Consecrator:
John Joseph Cardinal Carberry †
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Glennon Patrick Flavin †
Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska
Bishop Lawrence Preston Joseph Graves †
Titular Bishop of Vina

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

John Joseph Cardinal Carberry † (1956)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Raymond Augustine Kearney † (1935)
Titular Bishop of Lysinia
Bishop Thomas Edmund Molloy † (1920)
Bishop of Brooklyn, New York
Bishop Charles Edward McDonnell † (1892)
Bishop of Brooklyn, New York
Archbishop Michael Augustine Corrigan † (1873)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Archbishop John McCloskey † (1844)
Archbishop of New York, New York
Bishop John Joseph Hughes † (1838)
Bishop of New York, New York
Bishop John Dubois, P.S.S. † (1826)
Bishop of New York, New York
Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal, P.S.S. † (1817)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Lefebvre de Cheverus † (1810)
Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts
Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Archbishop of Ravenna
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 Edward Joseph O’Donnell † (1984)
Bishop James Terry Steib, S.V.D. (1984)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Jefferson City, MO
Ordained Priest	Saint Louis, Cathedral, Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Bishop	Saint Louis, Cathedral, Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place	Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 151, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Deceased Cardinals (back)
Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 15, Number 780
c1: CB, 19 May 2022

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