Bishop Karl Johann Greith †

Deceased

Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 May 1807		Born
2 Apr 1831	23.8	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
28 May 1831	24.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
11 Sep 1862	55.2	Selected	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
16 Mar 1863	55.8	Confirmed	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
3 May 1863	55.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
17 May 1882	74.9	Died	Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

MicroData Summary for Karl Johann Greith
(VIAF: 12453158; WikiData: Q1039052)
Bishop Karl Johann Greith (born 25 May 1807, died 17 May 1882) Bishop of Sankt Gallen

First Vatican Council: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Rapperswil
Ordained Bishop Feldkirch

a priest for 50.9 years
a bishop for 19.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Joseph Feßler (Fessler) †
Titular Bishop of Nyssa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joseph Feßler (Fessler) † (1862)
Titular Bishop of Nyssa
Bishop Vinzenz Gasser † (1857)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}
Archbishop Maximilian Joseph von Tarnóczy † (1851)
Archbishop of Salzburg
Friedrich Johann Joseph Cölestin zu Cardinal von Schwarzenberg † (1836)
Archbishop of Praha {Prague}
Bishop Bl. Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer zu Gleitheim † (1832)
Bishop of Trento
Bishop Bernhard Galura † (1820)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}
Bishop Karl Franz von Lodron † (1792)
Bishop of Brixen {Bressanone}
Bishop Dionys von Rost † (1777)
Bishop of Chur
Archbishop Giovanni Battista Caprara Montecuccoli † (1766)
Titular Archbishop of Iconium
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Franz Konstantin Rampa † (1879)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Eugène Amable Jean Claude Lachat, C.Pp.S. † (1863)
Archbishop Lothar von Kübel † (1868)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Rapperswil
Ordained Bishop	Feldkirch

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 499
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1863, Number 5

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