Bishop Paul Albert Zipfel †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Bismarck, North Dakota, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Sep 1935		Born
18 Mar 1961	25.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
16 May 1989	53.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
16 May 1989	53.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Walla Walla
29 Jun 1989	53.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Walla Walla
31 Dec 1996	61.2	Appointed	Bishop of Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
20 Feb 1997	61.4	Installed	Bishop of Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
19 Oct 2011	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
14 Jul 2019	83.8	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Bismarck, North Dakota, USA

MicroData Summary for Paul Albert Zipfel
(VIAF: 305943647; WikiData: Q2058669)
Bishop Paul Albert Zipfel (born 22 Sep 1935, died 14 Jul 2019) Bishop Emeritus of Bismarck

Ad Limina - December 2004: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Priest Saint Louis, Cathedral, Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Bishop Saint Louis, Cathedral, Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place Our Mother of Good Counsel Residence, Normandy, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Buried Place (Original) St. Mary's, Cemetery, Bismarck, Diocese of Bismarck, North Dakota

a priest for 58.3 years
a bishop for 30.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter †
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Lawrence May †
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Edward Joseph O’Donnell †
Titular Bishop of Britonia
Bishop James Terry Steib, S.V.D.
Titular Bishop of Fallaba

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Lawrence May † (1967)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
John Patrick Cardinal Cody † (1947)
Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois
Archbishop Joseph Elmer Ritter † (1933)
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Bishop Joseph Chartrand † (1910)
Bishop of Indianapolis, Indiana
Archbishop Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Falconio, O.F.M. Ref. † (1892)
Titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessalia
Raffaele Cardinal Monaco La Valletta † (1874)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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 Edward Kenneth Braxton (1995)
Bishop David Dennis Kagan (2011)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Priest	Saint Louis, Cathedral, Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Bishop	Saint Louis, Cathedral, Saint Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place	Our Mother of Good Counsel Residence, Normandy, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Buried Place (Original)	St. Mary's, Cemetery, Bismarck, Diocese of Bismarck, North Dakota

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 116, Number 10,352
r: Bollettino, 19 Oct 2011
d: CB, 15 Jul 2019
loc: CB, 16 Jul 2019
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)
c1: CB, 19 May 2022

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