Bishop Franz Melchior Joseph Zen-Ruffinen †

Deceased

Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Jan 1729		Born
18 Mar 1752	23.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland
26 May 1780	51.3	Selected	Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland
18 Sep 1780	51.6	Confirmed	Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland
12 Nov 1780	51.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland
14 Jun 1790	61.4	Died	Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland

MicroData Summary
Franz Melchior Joseph Zen-Ruffinen
Bishop Franz Melchior Joseph Zen-Ruffinen
(born 7 Jan 1729, died 14 Jun 1790)
Bishop of Sion {Sitten}

Event Place
Birth Place Leuk

a priest for 38.2 years
a bishop for 9.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Jean-Pierre Biord †
Bishop of Genève {Geneva}
Assisted by:
Abbot Georges Jean Schiner, C.R.A. †
Abbot of Saint-Maurice

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Jean-Pierre Biord † (1764)
Bishop of Genève {Geneva}
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Rovero (Rotario da Pralormo) † (1727)
Archbishop of Torino {Turin}
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Leuk

External Link(s):

VIAF: 314889544
WikiData: Q64747223

Source(s):

b: Die Bischöfe der Deutschsprachigen Länder
b/c2: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1780, Number 34
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 372
b/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 225, Number 18,626

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