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Bishop Johannes Evangelist Maria Gföllner †

Deceased

Bishop of Linz, Austria

Events

Event	Place
Birth Place	Waizenkirchen

a priest for 47.5 years a bishop for 25.6 years

Principal Consecrator: Friedrich Gustav Cardinal Piffl, C.R.S.A. † Archbishop of Wien {Vienna} Principal Co-Consecrators: Bishop Joseph Pfluger † Titular Bishop of Harpasa Bishop Ignaz Rieder † Titular Bishop of Sura

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Friedrich Gustav Cardinal Piffl, C.R.S.A. † (1913) Archbishop of Wien {Vienna} Archbishop Raffaele Scapinelli di Leguigno † (1912) Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Syria 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: Bishop Joseph Calasanz Fließer (Fliesser) † (1941) Principal Co-Consecrator of: Bishop Anton Keil † (1919) Bishop Johannes Baptist Filzer † (1927) Bishop Michael Memelauer † (1927)

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