Bishop John Henry Luers †

Deceased

Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Sep 1819		Born
11 Nov 1846	27.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
22 Sep 1857	37.9	Appointed	Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
10 Jan 1858	38.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
29 Jun 1871	51.7	Died	Bishop of Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

MicroData Summary for John Henry Luers
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Bishop John Henry Luers (born 29 Sep 1819, died 29 Jun 1871) Bishop of Fort Wayne

Event Place
Birth Place Lutten, Diocese of Münster, Germany
Ordained Bishop St. Peter in Chains, Cathedral, Cincinnati, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio

a priest for 24.6 years
a bishop for 13.4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop John Baptist Purcell †
Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Baptist Purcell †
Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jacques-Maurice des Landes d’Aussac de Saint Palais †
Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana
Bishop George Aloysius Carrell, S.J. †
Bishop of Covington, Kentucky

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Baptist Purcell † (1833)
Archbishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Archbishop James Whitfield † (1828)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky
Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Archbishop of Ravenna
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:
Bishop Joseph (James) Rademacher † (1863)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Peter Joseph Baltes † (1870)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Sylvester Horton Rosecrans † (1862)
Bishop Augustus Maria Bernard Anthony John Gebhard Toebbe † (1870)
Bishop Caspar Henry Borgess † (1870)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Lutten, Diocese of Münster, Germany
Ordained Bishop	St. Peter in Chains, Cathedral, Cincinnati, Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 597
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1858, Number 5

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