Bishop Paulus Rusch †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Innsbruck, Austria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Oct 1903		Born
26 Jul 1933	29.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Innsbruck, Austria
15 Oct 1938	35.0	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Innsbruck, Austria
15 Oct 1938	35.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Lycopolis
30 Nov 1938	35.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Lycopolis
9 Dec 1947	44.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Meloë in Isauria
26 Sep 1964	60.9	Appointed	Bishop of Innsbruck-Feldkirch, Austria
13 Aug 1980	76.8	Retired	Bishop of Innsbruck, Austria
31 Mar 1986	82.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Innsbruck, Austria

MicroData Summary
Paulus Rusch
Bishop Paulus Rusch
(born 4 Oct 1903, died 31 Mar 1986)
Bishop Emeritus of Innsbruck

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place München, Archdiocese of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany
Ordained Bishop Sankt Jakob, Church, Innsbruck, Apostolic Administration of Innsbruck
Death Place Zams

a priest for 52.6 years
a bishop for 47.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Sigismund Waitz †
Archbishop of Salzburg
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Andreas Rohracher †
Titular Bishop of Isba
Bishop Franz Tschann †
Titular Bishop of Panium

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Sigismund Waitz † (1913)
Archbishop of Salzburg
Bishop Franz Egger † (1908)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}
Bishop Josef Altenweisel † (1904)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Donald Walter Trautman † (1962)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Bruno Wechner † (1955)
Bishop Reinhold Stecher † (1981)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Karl Berg † (1973)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 25395194
WikiData: Q1254376

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1938, Number 95
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 5, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 16, Number 847, Ascendance

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