Bishop Joseph Ernst †

Deceased

Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Nov 1863		Born
2 Aug 1886	22.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Hildesheim, Germany
10 Feb 1915	51.2	Selected	Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany
1 Jun 1915	51.5	Confirmed	Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany
26 Sep 1915	51.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany
5 May 1928	64.4	Died	Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany

MicroData Summary
Joseph Ernst
Bishop Joseph Ernst
(born 8 Nov 1863, died 5 May 1928)
Bishop of Hildesheim

Event Place
Birth Place Groß-Algermissen

a priest for 41.7 years
a bishop for 12.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Adolf Bertram †
Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Karl Joseph Schulte †
Bishop of Paderborn
Bishop Hermann Wilhelm Berning †
Bishop of Osnabrück

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Adolf Bertram † (1906)
Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau)
Georg Cardinal von Kopp † (1881)
Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau)
Bishop Daniel Wilhelm Sommerwerk (Jacobi) † (1871)
Bishop of Hildesheim
Bishop Johannes Heinrich Beckmann † (1866)
Bishop of Osnabrück
Archbishop Paul Ludolf Melchers, S.J. † (1858)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Bishop Eduard Jakob Wedekin † (1850)
Bishop of Hildesheim
Johannes Cardinal von Geissel † (1837)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Joseph Maria Johann Nepomuk von Fraunberg † (1821)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Francesco Serra Cassano † (1818)
Titular Archbishop of Nicaea
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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 Valentin Wojciech † (1920)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 52874837
WikiData: Q1706935

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1915, Number 64

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