Bishop Michael Keller †

Deceased

Bishop of Münster, Germany

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Feb 1896		Born
6 Nov 1921	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Osnabrück, Germany
19 Jul 1947	51.4	Appointed	Bishop of Münster, Germany
28 Oct 1947	51.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Münster, Germany
7 Nov 1961	65.7	Died	Bishop of Münster, Germany

MicroData Summary
Michael Keller
Bishop Michael Keller
(born 16 Feb 1896, died 7 Nov 1961)
Bishop of Münster

Event Place
Birth Place Siegen

a priest for 40.0 years
a bishop for 14.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Josef Cardinal Frings †
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Hermann Wilhelm Berning †
Bishop of Osnabrück
Bishop Heinrich Roleff †
Titular Bishop of Elaea

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Josef Cardinal Frings † (1942)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo † (1922)
Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Libya
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Hermann Josef Spital † (1952)
Bishop Max Georg von Twickel † (1952)
Bishop Josef Homeyer † (1958)
Bishop Friedrich Ostermann † (1958)
Bishop Franz Kamphaus † (1959)
Bishop Reinhard Lettmann † (1959)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Heinrich Gleumes † (1948)
Bishop Heinrich Baaken † (1952)
Bishop Heinrich Tenhumberg † (1958)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Franz Jáchym † (1950)
Bishop Johannes Albert von Rudloff † (1950)
Bishop Johannes Pohlschneider † (1954)
Bishop Gerhard Franz (Franziskus) Demann † (1957)
Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen † (1957)
Bishop Helmut Hermann Wittler † (1957)
Bishop Julius Angerhausen † (1959)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/190878
VIAF: 160807273
WikiData: Q1928144

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1947, Number 116
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 20, Number 1,077, Ascendance

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