Bishop Josef Damian Schmitt †

Deceased

Bishop of Fulda, Germany

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Apr 1858		Born
28 Oct 1882	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Fulda, Germany
29 Dec 1906	48.6	Selected	Bishop of Fulda, Germany
23 Feb 1907	48.8	Confirmed	Bishop of Fulda, Germany
19 Mar 1907	48.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Fulda, Germany
10 Apr 1939	80.9	Died	Bishop of Fulda, Germany

MicroData Summary
Josef Damian Schmitt
Bishop Josef Damian Schmitt
(born 22 Apr 1858, died 10 Apr 1939)
Bishop of Fulda

Event Place
Birth Place Marbach

a priest for 56.4 years
a bishop for 32.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Dominikus (Martin Karl) Willi, O. Cist. †
Bishop of Limburg
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Paul Wilhelm Keppler †
Bishop of Rottenburg
Bishop Georg Heinrich Maria Kirstein †
Bishop of Mainz

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Dominikus (Martin Karl) Willi, O. Cist. † (1898)
Bishop of Limburg
Bishop Paul Leopold Haffner † (1886)
Bishop of Mainz
Bishop Johannes Christian Roos † (1885)
Bishop of Limburg
Bishop Georg von Kopp † (1881)
Bishop of Fulda
Bishop Daniel Wilhelm Sommerwerk (Jacobi) † (1871)
Bishop of Hildesheim
Bishop Johannes Heinrich Beckmann † (1866)
Bishop of Osnabrück
Archbishop Paul Ludolf Melchers, S.J. † (1858)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Bishop Eduard Jakob Wedekin † (1850)
Bishop of Hildesheim
Johannes Cardinal von Geissel † (1837)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Joseph Maria Johann Nepomuk von Fraunberg † (1821)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Francesco Serra Cassano † (1818)
Titular Archbishop of Nicaea
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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 Christian Schreiber † (1921)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Karl Augustinus Kilian † (1913)
Archbishop Karl Fritz † (1920)
Archbishop Joseph Gotthardt, O.M.I. † (1926)
Bishop Anton Hilfrich † (1930)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 67509485
WikiData: Q1706819

Source(s):

b: Die Bischöfe des Heiligen Römischen Reiches
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1907, Number 12

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