Bishop Paul Leopold Haffner †

Deceased

Bishop of Mainz, Germany

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Jan 1829		Born
10 Aug 1852	23.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rottenburg, Germany
1864	34.9	Incardinated	Priest of Mainz, Germany
10 Jun 1886	57.3	Appointed	Bishop of Mainz, Germany
25 Jul 1886	57.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mainz, Germany
2 Nov 1899	70.7	Died	Bishop of Mainz, Germany

MicroData Summary
Paul Leopold Haffner
Bishop Paul Leopold Haffner
(born 21 Jan 1829, died 2 Nov 1899)
Bishop of Mainz

Event Place
Birth Place Horb, Diocese of Rottenburg
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Mainz, Diocese of Mainz

a priest for 47.2 years
a bishop for 13.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Johannes Christian Roos †
Bishop of Limburg
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Franz Leopold von Leonrod †
Bishop of Eichstätt
Bishop Michael Felix Korum †
Bishop of Trier

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Johannes Christian Roos † (1885)
Bishop of Limburg
Bishop Georg von Kopp † (1881)
Bishop of Fulda
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Hermann Joseph Schmitz † (1893)
Bishop Dominikus (Martin Karl) Willi, O. Cist. † (1898)
Archbishop Thomas Nörber † (1898)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Wilhelm von Reiser † (1886)
Bishop Heinrich Feiten † (1887)
Bishop Joseph Weyland † (1888)
Bishop Friedrich Justus Knecht † (1894)
Archbishop Georg Ignaz Komp † (1894)
Bishop Adalbert Endert † (1898)
Bishop Paul Wilhelm Keppler † (1899)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/143948
VIAF: 62298523
WikiData: Q1299242

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 389
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1886, Number 32

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