Bishop Franz Egger †

Deceased

Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Apr 1836		Born
11 Nov 1860	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
12 Jun 1908	72.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
12 Jun 1908	72.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Laranda
14 Jun 1908	72.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Laranda
27 Sep 1912	76.4	Selected	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
6 Nov 1912	76.5	Confirmed	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
27 Nov 1912	76.5	Installed	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
17 May 1918	82.0	Died	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy

MicroData Summary
Franz Egger
Bishop Franz Egger
(born 26 Apr 1836, died 17 May 1918)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}

Event Place
Birth Place Hippach, Diocese of Brixen {Bressanone}
Ordained Bishop Brixen, Diocese of Brixen {Bressanone}

a priest for 57.5 years
a bishop for 9.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Josef Altenweisel †
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Josephus Markus (Josef) Kahn †
Bishop of Gurk
Bishop Balthasar Kaltner †
Titular Bishop of Agathopolis

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Josef Altenweisel † (1904)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}
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:
Archbishop Sigismund Waitz † (1913)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/160088
VIAF: 62647364
WikiData: Q1446619

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 93
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1908, Number 42
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 5, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 16, Number 847, Ascendance
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 33, Number 1,886

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