Bishop Louis Amadeus Rappe †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Feb 1801		Born
14 Mar 1829	28.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Arras, France
23 Apr 1847	46.2	Appointed	Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA
10 Oct 1847	46.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA
14 Jul 1870	69.4	Resigned	Bishop of Cleveland, Ohio, USA
8 Sep 1877	76.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Cleveland, Ohio, USA

MicroData Summary
Louis Amadeus Rappe
Bishop Louis Amadeus Rappe
(born 2 Feb 1801, died 8 Sep 1877)
Bishop Emeritus of Cleveland

First Vatican Council: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Audrehem, France
Ordained Priest Arras, Diocese of Arras, France
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Cincinnati, Diocese of Cincinnati, Ohio
Death Place St. Albans, VT

a priest for 48.4 years
a bishop for 29.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Hugues-Robert-Jean-Charles de la Tour d’Auvergne-Lauraquais †
Bishop of Arras
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop John Baptist Purcell †
Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Richard Vincent Whelan †
Bishop of Richmond, Virginia
Assisted by:
Father Timothy Collins
Vicar General of Cincinnati, Ohio

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Baptist Purcell † (1833)
Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Archbishop James Whitfield † (1828)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky
Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Archbishop of Ravenna
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:
Monsignor Felix Mariam Boff † (1853)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop John Baptist Lamy † (1850)
Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley † (1853)
Bishop John Loughlin † (1853)
Bishop Louis Joseph Mary Theodore de Goesbriand † (1853)
Bishop Joshua Maria (Moody) Young † (1854)
Bishop Tobias Mullen † (1868)
Bishop Joseph Projectus Machebeuf (Macheboeuf) † (1868)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 66074242
WikiData: Q6686623

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 210
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1847, Number 37
c1: CB, 16 May 2022

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