Bishop Anton Hilfrich †

Deceased

Bishop of Limburg, Germany

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Oct 1873		Born
28 Oct 1898	25.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Limburg, Germany
31 Mar 1930	56.4	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Limburg, Germany
31 Mar 1930	56.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sebastopolis in Armenia
5 Jun 1930	56.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sebastopolis in Armenia
30 Oct 1930	57.0	Succeeded	Bishop of Limburg, Germany
5 Feb 1947	73.3	Died	Bishop of Limburg, Germany

MicroData Summary
Anton Hilfrich
Bishop Anton Hilfrich
(born 3 Oct 1873, died 5 Feb 1947)
Bishop of Limburg

Event Place
Birth Place Lindenholzhausen, Diocese of Limburg
Ordained Bishop Sankt Boniface, Church, Wiesbaden

a priest for 48.2 years
a bishop for 16.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Karl Fritz †
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Josef Damian Schmitt †
Bishop of Fulda
Bishop Ludwig Maria Hugo †
Bishop of Mainz

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Karl Fritz † (1920)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Bishop Paul Wilhelm Keppler † (1899)
Bishop of Rottenburg
Archbishop Thomas Nörber † (1898)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Bishop Paul Leopold Haffner † (1886)
Bishop of Mainz
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 Otto Raible, S.A.C. † (1935)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 265235186
WikiData: Q606615

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 175, Number 14,565
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1930, Number 35

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