Bishop Friedrich Xaver Odo Fiala †

Deceased

Bishop of Basel, Switzerland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Jul 1817		Born
23 May 1841	23.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Basel, Switzerland
15 May 1885	67.8	Appointed	Bishop of Basel, Switzerland
17 May 1885	67.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Basel, Switzerland
24 May 1888	70.8	Died	Bishop of Basel, Switzerland

MicroData Summary
Friedrich Xaver Odo Fiala
Bishop Friedrich Xaver Odo Fiala
(born 21 Jul 1817, died 24 May 1888)
Bishop of Basel

Event Place
Birth Place Nidau, Diocese of Basel
Ordained Bishop Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Solothurn

a priest for 47.0 years
a bishop for 3.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Angelo Cardinal Bianchi †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Domenico Ferrata †
Titular Archbishop of Thessalonica
Bishop Martin Marty, O.S.B. †
Titular Bishop of Tiberias

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Angelo Cardinal Bianchi † (1874)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Giuseppe Cardinal Berardi † (1863)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Marcellino e Pietro
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/142234
VIAF: 77535266
WikiData: Q1459088

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 142
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1885, Number 26
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 28, Number 1,563
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 29, Number 1,618, Additions/Corrections (back)

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