Archbishop Arthur Jerome Drossaerts †

Deceased

Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Sep 1862		Born
15 Jun 1889	26.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands
18 Jul 1918	55.8	Appointed	Bishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA
8 Dec 1918	56.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA
3 Aug 1926	63.8	Appointed	Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA
8 Sep 1940	77.9	Died	Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas, USA

MicroData Summary
Arthur Jerome Drossaerts
Archbishop Arthur Jerome Drossaerts
(born 11 Sep 1862, died 8 Sep 1940)
Archbishop of San Antonio

Event Place
Birth Place Breda, Diocese of Breda, Netherlands
Ordained Bishop Saint Louis, King of France, Cathedral, New Orleans, Archdiocese of New Orleans, Louisiana
Death Place San Antonio, Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas

a priest for 51.2 years
a bishop for 21.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Adrianus Godschalk †
Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc)
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Giovanni Vincenzo Bonzano †
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Theophile Meerschaert †
Bishop of Oklahoma
Bishop John Marius Laval †
Titular Bishop of Hierocaesarea

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Giovanni Vincenzo Bonzano † (1912)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Jean-Louis-Antoine-Joseph Coudert, O.M.I. † (1919)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop José María Preciado y Nieva, C.M.F. † (1934)
Bishop Mariano Simon Garriga † (1936)
Bishop Sidney Matthew Metzger † (1940)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 46045359
WikiData: Q4799255

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 60
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1918, Number 64
c1: CB, 26 Feb 2015

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