Archbishop Sebastian Gebhard Messmer †

Deceased

Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Aug 1847		Born
23 Jul 1871	23.9	Ordained Priest	Priest
14 Dec 1891	44.2	Appointed	Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
27 Mar 1892	44.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
28 Nov 1903	56.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
10 Dec 1903	56.2	Installed	Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
4 Aug 1930	82.9	Died	Archbishop of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

MicroData Summary for Sebastian Gebhard Messmer
(VIAF: 53718139; WikiData: Q122236)
Archbishop Sebastian Gebhard Messmer (born 29 Aug 1847, died 4 Aug 1930) Archbishop of Milwaukee

Event Place
Birth Place Goldach, Diocese of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
Ordained Priest Innsbruck
Ordained Bishop St. Peter, Church, Newark, Diocese of Newark, New Jersey
Death Place Goldach, Diocese of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

a priest for 59.0 years
a bishop for 38.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Athanasius Eduard Zuber, O.F.M. Cap. †
Titular Bishop of Augustopolis in Phrygia
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop John Joseph Frederick Otto Zardetti †
Bishop of Saint Cloud, Minnesota
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Winand Michael Wigger †
Bishop of Newark, New Jersey
Bishop John Joseph Keane †
Titular Bishop of Iasus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Joseph Frederick Otto Zardetti † (1889)
Bishop of Saint Cloud, Minnesota
Archbishop William Hickley Gross, C.SS.R. † (1873)
Archbishop of Oregon City, Oregon
Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley † (1853)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Archbishop Gaetano Bedini † (1852)
Titular Archbishop of Thebae
Lodovico Cardinal Altieri † (1836)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Portico (Campitelli)
Pope Gregory XVI (1831)
(Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. †)
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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:
Aloisius Joseph Cardinal Muench † (1913)
Bishop Matteo Aloisio Niedhammer y Yaeckle, O.F.M. Cap. † (1927)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph John Fox † (1904)
Bishop Ferdinand Rüegg † (1906)
Bishop Edward Kozlowski † (1914)
Bishop Joseph Gabriel Pinten † (1922)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Frederick Eis † (1899)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Goldach, Diocese of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
Ordained Priest	Innsbruck
Ordained Bishop	St. Peter, Church, Newark, Diocese of Newark, New Jersey
Death Place	Goldach, Diocese of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 520
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1892, Number 11
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 12, Number 628, Ascendance
c1: CB, 16 May 2022

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