Bishop Mathias William Schmidt, O.S.B. †

Deceased

Bishop of Ruy Barbosa (Rui Barbosa), Bahia, Brazil

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Apr 1931		Born
11 Jul 1952	21.2	Professed	Member of Order of Saint Benedict
30 May 1957	26.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict
10 Jun 1972	41.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Jataí, Goias, Brazil
10 Jun 1972	41.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mutugenna
10 Sep 1972	41.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mutugenna
14 May 1976	45.0	Appointed	Bishop of Ruy Barbosa (Rui Barbosa), Bahia, Brazil
24 May 1992	61.0	Died	Bishop of Ruy Barbosa (Rui Barbosa), Bahia, Brazil

MicroData Summary
Mathias William Schmidt
Bishop Mathias William Schmidt O.S.B.
(born 21 Apr 1931, died 24 May 1992)
Bishop of Ruy Barbosa (Rui Barbosa)

Event Place
Birth Place Nortonville, KS, Diocese of Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
Ordained Priest St. Benedict, Abbey, Atchison, KS, Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, USA
Ordained Bishop St. Benedict, Abbey, Atchison, KS, Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, USA
Death Place Utinga

a priest for 34.9 years
a bishop for 19.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Edward Joseph Hunkeler †
Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Benedito Domingos Vito Coscia, O.F.M. †
Bishop of Jataí, Goias
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Ignatius Jerome Strecker †
Archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas
Bishop Michael Francis McAuliffe †
Bishop of Jefferson City, Missouri

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Benedito Domingos Vito Coscia, O.F.M. † (1961)
Bishop of Jataí, Goias
Bishop Bryan Joseph McEntegart † (1943)
Bishop of Brooklyn, New York
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Heriberto João Hermes, O.S.B. † (1990)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q10327368

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 133
prof: CB, 3 May 2019
ob/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1972, Number 97
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 20, Number 1,091
c1: CB, 23 May 2022

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