Bishop Joseph Melcher †

Deceased

Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
19 Mar 1806		Born
27 Mar 1830	24.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
23 Jul 1853⁸	47.3	Appointed	Bishop of Quincy, Illinois, USA
3 Mar 1868	61.9	Appointed	Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
12 Jul 1868	62.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
20 Dec 1873	67.7	Died	Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA

Note(s): ⁸ Did Not Take Effect

MicroData Summary
Joseph Melcher
Bishop Joseph Melcher
(born 19 Mar 1806, died 20 Dec 1873)
Bishop of Green Bay

First Vatican Council: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Vienna, Archdiocese of Wien {Vienna}, Austria
Ordained Priest Modena, Diocese of Modena (e Nonantola), Italy
Ordained Bishop St Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place Green Bay, Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin

a priest for 43.7 years
a bishop for 5.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Adeodato Antonio Giovanni Luigi Caleffi, O.S.B. †
Bishop of Carpi
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick †
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Martin Henni †
Bishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Bishop Henry Damian Juncker †
Bishop of Alton, Illinois

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick † (1841)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Joseph Rosati, C.M. † (1824)
Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Louis-Guillaume-Valentin Dubourg, P.S.S. † (1815)
Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas (Saint Louis of New Orleans)
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Thomas Bonacum † (1870)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Louis Mary (Michael) Fink, O.S.B. † (1871)
Archbishop Patrick John Ryan † (1872)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q88573

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 520
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1868, Number 25
c1: CB, 16 May 2022

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