Bishop George Otto Wirz †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Titular Bishop of Municipa

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Jan 1929		Born
31 May 1952	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Madison, Wisconsin, USA
10 Dec 1977	48.8	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, USA
10 Dec 1977	48.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Municipa
9 Mar 1978	49.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Municipa
10 Feb 2004	75.0	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, USA
23 Nov 2010	81.8	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Madison, Wisconsin, USA

MicroData Summary for George Otto Wirz
(WikiData: Q279107)
Bishop George Otto Wirz (born 17 Jan 1929, died 23 Nov 2010) Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Madison

Ad Limina - May 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Monroe
Ordained Priest St. Raphael, Cathedral, Madison, Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin
Ordained Bishop St. Raphael, Cathedral, Madison, Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin

a priest for 58.4 years
a bishop for 32.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop William Patrick O’Connor †
Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Cletus Francis O’Donnell †
Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jerome Joseph Hastrich †
Bishop of Gallup, New Mexico
Archbishop Rembert George Samuel Weakland, O.S.B. †
Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Cletus Francis O’Donnell † (1960)
Bishop of Madison, Wisconsin
Albert Gregory Cardinal Meyer † (1946)
Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois
Archbishop Moses Elias Kiley † (1934)
Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology (back)
c1: CB, 10 May 2019
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 46, Number 3,139

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