Bishop Johann Raffl †

Deceased

Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Oct 1858		Born
15 Jul 1883	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
28 Apr 1921	62.5	Appointed	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
19 Jun 1921	62.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy
15 Jul 1927	68.7	Died	Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}, Italy

MicroData Summary
Johann Raffl
Bishop Johann Raffl
(born 16 Oct 1858, died 15 Jul 1927)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}

Event Place
Birth Place Roppen, Diocese of Brixen {Bressanone}
Ordained Bishop Santa Prassede, Church, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}

a priest for 44.0 years
a bishop for 6.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Raffaele Virili †
Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Libya
Archbishop Sebastião Leite de Vasconcellos †
Titular Archbishop of Tamiathis

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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

External Link(s):

VIAF: 257713270
WikiData: Q1698208

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1921, Number 42
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 93

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