Bishop Otto Wüst †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 May 1926		Born
10 Oct 1953	27.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Basel e Lugano, Switzerland
27 Nov 1975	49.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland
27 Nov 1975	49.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tubia
1 Feb 1976	49.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tubia
2 Sep 1982	56.2	Selected	Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland
21 Sep 1982	56.3	Confirmed	Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland
1 Nov 1982	56.4	Installed	Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland
26 Oct 1993	67.4	Resigned	Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland
19 Aug 2002	76.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}, Switzerland

MicroData Summary
Otto Wüst
Bishop Otto Wüst
(born 26 May 1926, died 19 Aug 2002)
Bishop Emeritus of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}

Event Place
Birth Place Sursee, Diocese of Basel e Lugano
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop St. Ursus, Cathedral, Solothurn, Diocese of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}
Death Place Sursee

a priest for 48.8 years
a bishop for 26.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Anton Hänggi †
Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop François-Nestor Adam, C.R.B. †
Bishop of Sion {Sitten}
Bishop Joseph Hasler †
Bishop of Sankt Gallen

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Anton Hänggi † (1968)
Bishop of Basel {Bâle, Basilea}
Bishop Franz von Streng † (1937)
Titular Bishop of Obbi
Archbishop Filippo Bernardini † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Antiochia in Pisidia
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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

Ordained Priest:
Kurt Cardinal Koch (1982)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Candolfi † (1983)
Bishop Martin Gächter (1987)
Mister Hansjörg Vogel (1994)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 66492152
WikiData: Q1276179

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 169, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 34, Number 2,096

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