Bishop George Joseph Gottwald †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Titular Bishop of Cedamusa

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 May 1914		Born
9 Jun 1940	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
23 Jun 1961	47.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
23 Jun 1961	47.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cedamusa
8 Aug 1961	47.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cedamusa
2 Aug 1988	74.2	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
11 Mar 2002	87.8	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

MicroData Summary for George Joseph Gottwald
(WikiData: Q16015493)
Bishop George Joseph Gottwald (born 12 May 1914, died 11 Mar 2002) Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Saint Louis

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place St. Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Priest St. Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Bishop Saint Louis, Cathedral, St. Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place Richmond Heights, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri

a priest for 61.7 years
a bishop for 40.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop John Joseph Glennon †
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Consecrator:
Joseph Elmer Cardinal Ritter †
Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Patrick Cody †
Bishop of Kansas City-Saint Joseph, Missouri
Bishop Leo Christopher Byrne †
Titular Bishop of Sabadia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Joseph Elmer Cardinal 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 Joseph O’Donnell † (1984)
Bishop James Terry Steib, S.V.D. (1984)

Event	Place
Birth Place	St. Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Priest	St. Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Ordained Bishop	Saint Louis, Cathedral, St. Louis, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri
Death Place	Richmond Heights, Archdiocese of Saint Louis, Missouri

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 169, Necrology (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1961, Number 97
c1: CB, 19 May 2022

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