Bishop Joseph Meile †

Deceased

Bishop of Sankt Gallen

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Jul 1891		Born	Mosnang
24 Mar 1917	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
20 Sep 1938	47.2	Selected	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
26 Sep 1938	47.2	Confirmed	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
16 Oct 1938	47.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
6 Jan 1957	65.5	Died	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

a priest for 39.8 years
a bishop for 18.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Filippo Bernardini †
Bishop Laurenz Matthias Vincenz †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joseph Meile † (1938)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
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 †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Christian Caminada †
Bishop Bruno Wechner †

Source(s):

b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1938, Number 80

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