Bishop Edmundo Luís Kunz †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Titular Bishop of Ptolemais in Phoenicia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Mar 1919		Born
30 Nov 1944	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1 Aug 1955	36.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
1 Aug 1955	36.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Ptolemais in Phoenicia
30 Oct 1955	36.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Ptolemais in Phoenicia
12 Sep 1988	69.5	Died	Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Edmundo Luís Kunz
Bishop Edmundo Luís Kunz
(born 11 Mar 1919, died 12 Sep 1988)
Auxiliary Bishop of Porto Alegre

Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Venâncio Aires

a priest for 43.7 years
a bishop for 32.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Alfredo Vicente Scherer †
Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop João Cláudio Colling †
Bishop of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul
Bishop Luiz Felipe de Nadal †
Bishop of Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Alfredo Vicente Scherer † (1947)
Archbishop of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Archbishop Carlo Chiarlo † (1928)
Titular Archbishop of Amida
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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 Alberto Frederico Etges † (1959)
Bishop José Ivo Lorscheiter † (1966)
Bishop Bruno Maldaner † (1966)
Bishop Érico Ferrari † (1971)
Bishop Thadeu Gomes Canellas † (1984)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q10270471

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1955, Number 98

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