Bishop Karl Golser †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 May 1943		Born
10 Oct 1968	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}, Italy
5 Dec 2008	65.5	Appointed	Bishop of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}, Italy
8 Mar 2009	65.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}, Italy
27 Jul 2011	68.1	Resigned	Bishop of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}, Italy
25 Dec 2016	73.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}, Italy

MicroData Summary
Karl Golser
Bishop Karl Golser
(born 16 May 1943, died 25 Dec 2016)
Bishop Emeritus of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}

Event Place
Birth Place Tscherms-Cermes, Diocese of Brixen {Bressanone}
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Bressanone, Diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}
Death Place Bressanone, Diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}
Buried Place (Original) Cathedral, Bressanone, Diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone {Bozen-Brixen}

a priest for 48.2 years
a bishop for 7.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Franjo Cardinal Šeper †
Archbishop of Zagreb
Principal Consecrator:
Angelo Cardinal Scola
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Luigi Bressan
Archbishop of Trento
Bishop Manfred Scheuer
Bishop of Innsbruck

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Angelo Cardinal Scola (1991)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Bernardin Cardinal Gantin † (1957)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Ivo Muser (2011)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 268056624
WikiData: Q433001

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 5 Dec 2008
ob/c2+: CB
r: Bollettino, 27 Jul 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 197, Number 16,062
d: CB, 25 Dec 2016
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)
c1/loc: AM, 19 Nov 2020

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