Bishop Joseph Feßler (Fessler) †

Deceased

Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Dec 1813		Born
24 Jul 1837	23.6	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
30 Jul 1837	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
7 Apr 1862	48.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
7 Apr 1862	48.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Nyssa
18 May 1862	48.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Nyssa
23 Sep 1864	50.8	Selected	Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria
27 Mar 1865	51.3	Confirmed	Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria
30 Apr 1865	51.4	Installed	Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria
25 Apr 1872	58.3	Died	Bishop of Sankt Pölten, Austria

MicroData Summary for Joseph Feßler (Fessler)
(VIAF: 34451179; WikiData: Q90215)
Bishop Joseph Feßler (Fessler) (born 2 Dec 1813, died 25 Apr 1872) Bishop of Sankt Pölten

First Vatican Council: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Lochau (Vorarlberg), Diocese of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Brixen, Diocese of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy

a priest for 34.7 years
a bishop for 9.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Vinzenz Gasser †
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Benedetto Riccabona de Reinchenfels †
Bishop of Trento
Bishop Franz Joseph Rudigier (Rudiger) †
Bishop of Linz

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Vinzenz Gasser † (1857)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}
Archbishop Maximilian Joseph von Tarnóczy † (1851)
Archbishop of Salzburg
Friedrich Johann Joseph Cölestin zu Cardinal von Schwarzenberg † (1836)
Archbishop of Praha {Prague}
Bishop Bl. Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleitheim † (1832)
Bishop of Trento
Bishop Bernhard Galura † (1820)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}
Bishop Karl Franz von Lodron † (1792)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}
Bishop Dionys von Rost † (1777)
Bishop of Chur
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Caprara Montecuccoli † (1766)
Titular Archbishop of Iconium
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 Karl Johann Greith † (1863)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Johann Nepomucene Amberg † (1865)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Lochau (Vorarlberg), Diocese of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
Ordained Bishop	Brixen, Diocese of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 307, and Page 421
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1862, Number 15

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