Bishop Walter Joseph Schoenherr †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Detroit, Michigan, USA

Titular Bishop of Timidana

Motto: Christ Must Increase

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Feb 1920		Born
27 Oct 1945	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Detroit, Michigan, USA
8 Mar 1968	48.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA
8 Mar 1968	48.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Timidana
1 May 1968	48.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Timidana
7 Mar 1995	75.0	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, Michigan, USA
27 Apr 2007	87.1	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Detroit, Michigan, USA

MicroData Summary
Walter Joseph Schoenherr
Bishop Walter Joseph Schoenherr
(born 28 Feb 1920, died 27 Apr 2007)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Detroit

Event Place
Birth Place Center Line, Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan
Ordained Bishop Most Blessed Sacrament, Cathedral, Detroit, Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan
Death Place Livonia, Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan
Buried Place (Original) Holy Sepulchre, Cemetery, Southfield, Archdiocese of Detroit, Michigan

a priest for 61.5 years
a bishop for 38.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Edward Aloysius Mooney †
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Francis Dearden †
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alexander Mieceslaus Zaleski †
Bishop of Lansing, Michigan
Bishop Joseph Matthew Breitenbeck †
Titular Bishop of Tepelta

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Francis Dearden † (1948)
Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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:
Bishop John Michael Quinn (1972)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Leopold Imesch † (1973)
Bishop Arthur Henry Krawczak † (1973)
Bishop Bernard Joseph Harrington † (1994)
Bishop Kevin Michael Britt † (1994)
Bishop Walter Allison Hurley (2003)
Bishop Francis Ronald Reiss (2003)
Bishop John Michael Quinn (2003)

External Link(s):

Find a Grave (Grave): 19148782
WikiData: Q1261419

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 110, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 191, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 10, Number 482

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