Bishop Metod Pirih †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Koper, Slovenia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 May 1936		Born
29 Jun 1963	27.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Trieste e Capodistria (Trst i Koper), Italy
17 Oct 1977	41.4	Incardinated	Priest of Koper, Slovenia
25 Mar 1985	48.8	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Koper, Slovenia
27 May 1985	49.0	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Koper, Slovenia
16 Apr 1987	50.9	Succeeded	Bishop of Koper, Slovenia
26 May 2012	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Koper, Slovenia
23 Mar 2021	84.8	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Koper, Slovenia

MicroData Summary for Metod Pirih
(VIAF: 305575371; WikiData: Q704275)
Bishop Metod Pirih (born 9 May 1936, died 23 Mar 2021) Bishop Emeritus of Koper

Ad Limina - January 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - March 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Lokovec
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Capodistria, Diocese of Koper
Death Place Vipava

a priest for 57.7 years
a bishop for 35.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Janez Jenko †
Bishop of Koper
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Alojzij Šuštar †
Archbishop of Ljubljana
Bishop Franc Kramberger
Bishop of Maribor

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Janez Jenko † (1964)
Bishop of Koper
Archbishop Gabriel Bukatko † (1952)
Archbishop of Beograd (-Smederevo)
Archbishop Josip Antun Ujcić † (1937)
Archbishop of Beograd (-Smederevo)
Archbishop Antun Bauer † (1911)
Archbishop of Zagreb
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Jurij Bizjak (2000)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Andrej Glavan (2000)
Archbishop Anton Stres, C.M. (2000)

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 26 May 2012
prie: CB, 16 Jun 2020
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 91, Number 7,736
d: CB, 23 Mar 2021
ob.loc: CB, 24 Mar 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)

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