Bishop Alois Scheiwiler †

Deceased

Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Apr 1872		Born
21 Mar 1896	23.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
23 Jun 1930	58.2	Selected	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
28 Aug 1930	58.3	Confirmed	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
5 Oct 1930	58.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
20 Jul 1938	66.2	Died	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

MicroData Summary
Alois Scheiwiler
Bishop Alois Scheiwiler
(born 4 Apr 1872, died 20 Jul 1938)
Bishop of Sankt Gallen

Event Place
Birth Place Gossau, Diocese of Sankt Gallen
Ordained Bishop Sankt Gallen, Diocese of Sankt Gallen

a priest for 42.3 years
a bishop for 7.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli †
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Georg Schmid von Grüneck †
Bishop of Chur
Bishop Joseph Ambühl †
Bishop of Basel e Lugano

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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 Laurenz Matthias Vincenz † (1932)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 34831660
WikiData: Q3612869

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1930, Number 67

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