Bishop Henry Damian Juncker †

Deceased

Bishop of Alton, Illinois, USA

Motto: Ave Maris Stella

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Aug 1809		Born
16 Mar 1834	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
9 Jan 1857	47.3	Appointed	Bishop of Alton, Illinois, USA
26 Apr 1857	47.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Alton, Illinois, USA
2 Oct 1868	59.1	Died	Bishop of Alton, Illinois, USA

MicroData Summary
Henry Damian Juncker
Bishop Henry Damian Juncker
(born 22 Aug 1809, died 2 Oct 1868)
Bishop of Alton

Event Place
Birth Place Fénétrange, Diocese of Metz, France
Ordained Priest Cincinnati, Diocese of Cincinnati, Ohio
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Cincinnati, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio
Death Place Alton, Diocese of Alton, Illinois
Buried Place (Original) Crypt, Saints Peter and Paul, Church, Alton, Diocese of Alton, Illinois

a priest for 34.5 years
a bishop for 11.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Baptist Purcell †
Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Baptist Purcell †
Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Martin Henni †
Bishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Bishop Joshua Maria (Moody) Young †
Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Baptist Purcell † (1833)
Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Archbishop James Whitfield † (1828)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky
Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Archbishop of Ravenna
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop John Janssen † (1858)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop James Michael Myles O’Gorman, O.C.S.O. † (1859)
Bishop James Whelan, O.P. † (1859)
Archbishop Patrick Augustine Feehan † (1865)
Bishop Joseph Melcher † (1868)

External Link(s):

Find a Grave (Grave): 154372989
WikiData: Q107669

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 91
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1857, Number 20
c1: CB, 20 May 2022

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