Bishop John Baptist Rosner, S.A.C. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Queenstown, South Africa

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 May 1908		Born
19 Mar 1934	25.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of the Catholic Apostolate
3 Feb 1972	63.7	Appointed	Bishop of Queenstown, South Africa
25 Apr 1972	63.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Queenstown, South Africa
3 Feb 1984	75.7	Retired	Bishop of Queenstown, South Africa
8 Apr 1998	89.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Queenstown, South Africa

MicroData Summary
John Baptist Rosner
Bishop John Baptist Rosner S.A.C.
(born 13 May 1908, died 8 Apr 1998)
Bishop Emeritus of Queenstown

Event Place
Birth Place Schnaittenbach
Ordained Bishop Queenstown, Diocese of Queenstown

a priest for 64.0 years
a bishop for 25.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Owen Cardinal McCann †
Archbishop of Cape Town {Kaapstad}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Johannes Baptist Lück, S.C.I. †
Bishop of Aliwal
Bishop Manfred Gottschalk, S.A.C. †
Bishop of Oudtshoorn

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Owen Cardinal McCann † (1950)
Archbishop of Cape Town {Kaapstad}
Archbishop Martin Lucas, S.V.D. † (1945)
Titular Archbishop of Adulis
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Herbert Nikolaus Lenhof, S.A.C. † (1984)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Andrew Zolile T. Brook † (1979)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 8321377
WikiData: Q41087138

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 138
ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Additions/Corrections (front)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 154, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 22, Number 1,211

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