Bishop Joseph Meile †

Deceased

Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Jul 1891		Born
24 Mar 1917	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
20 Sep 1938	47.1	Selected	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
26 Sep 1938	47.1	Confirmed	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
16 Oct 1938	47.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
6 Jan 1957	65.4	Died	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

MicroData Summary
Joseph Meile
Bishop Joseph Meile
(born 24 Jul 1891, died 6 Jan 1957)
Bishop of Sankt Gallen

Event Place
Birth Place Mosnang, Diocese of Sankt Gallen
Ordained Bishop Sankt Gallen, Diocese of Sankt Gallen

a priest for 39.7 years
a bishop for 18.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli †
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Filippo Bernardini †
Titular Archbishop of Antiochia in Pisidia
Bishop Laurenz Matthias Vincenz †
Bishop of Chur

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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 Christian Josef Caminada † (1941)
Bishop Bruno Wechner † (1955)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/168022
VIAF: 241015861
WikiData: Q121183

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1938, Number 80

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