Bishop Robert William Muench

Bishop Emeritus of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

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Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Dec 1942		Born
18 May 1968	25.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
8 May 1990	47.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
8 May 1990	47.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mactaris
29 Jun 1990	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mactaris
5 Jan 1996	53.0	Appointed	Bishop of Covington, Kentucky, USA
19 Mar 1996	53.2	Installed	Bishop of Covington, Kentucky, USA
15 Dec 2001	58.9	Appointed	Bishop of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
14 Mar 2002	59.2	Installed	Bishop of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
26 Jun 2018	75.4	Retired	Bishop of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

MicroData Summary for Robert William Muench
(WikiData: Q1674844)
Bishop Robert William Muench (born 28 Dec 1942) Bishop Emeritus of Baton Rouge

Ad Limina - November 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - January 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Louisville, KY, Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky
Ordained Priest Saint Louis, King of France, Cathedral Basilica, New Orleans, Archdiocese of New Orleans, Louisiana
Ordained Bishop Saint Louis, King of France, Cathedral Basilica, New Orleans, Archdiocese of New Orleans, Louisiana

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Baton Rouge.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Philip Matthew Hannan †
Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Francis Bible Schulte †
Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Philip Matthew Hannan †
Archbishop Emeritus of New Orleans, Louisiana
Bishop John Clement Favalora
Bishop of Saint Petersburg, Florida

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Francis Bible Schulte † (1981)
Archbishop of New Orleans, Louisiana
John Joseph Cardinal Krol † (1953)
Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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 Roger Joseph Foys (2002)
Bishop Ronald Paul Herzog † (2005)
Archbishop Shelton Joseph Fabre (2007)

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 122, Number 10,974
r: Bollettino, 26 Jun 2018
c1: CB, 11 May 2022

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