Bishop Ludwig Schwarz, S.D.B.

Bishop Emeritus of Linz, Austria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Jun 1940		Born
29 Jun 1964	24.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
15 Oct 2001	61.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Wien {Vienna}, Austria
15 Oct 2001	61.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Simidicca
25 Nov 2001	61.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Simidicca
6 Jul 2005	65.0	Appointed	Bishop of Linz, Austria
18 Sep 2005	65.2	Installed	Bishop of Linz, Austria
18 Nov 2015	75.4	Retired	Bishop of Linz, Austria

MicroData Summary
Ludwig Schwarz
Bishop Ludwig Schwarz S.D.B.
(born 4 Jun 1940)
Bishop Emeritus of Linz

Ad Limina - November 2005: Bishop
Ad Limina - January 2014: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Bratislava, Slovakia

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Linz.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Josef Stimpfle †
Bishop of Augsburg
Principal Consecrator:
Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, O.P.
Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alois Kothgasser, S.D.B. †
Bishop of Innsbruck
Archbishop Ján Sokol
Archbishop of Bratislava-Trnava

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, O.P. (1991)
Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}
Hans Hermann Cardinal Groër, O.S.B. † (1986)
Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}
Franz Cardinal König † (1952)
Archbishop Emeritus of Wien {Vienna}
Bishop Michael Memelauer † (1927)
Bishop of Sankt Pölten
Friedrich Gustav Cardinal Piffl, C.R.S.A. † (1913)
Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}
Archbishop Raffaele Scapinelli di Leguigno † (1912)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Syria
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Anton Leichtfried (2007)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 293394508
WikiData: Q43751

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 165, Number 14,077
r: Bollettino, 18 Nov 2015

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