Bishop Joseph Werth, S.J.

Bishop of Trasfigurazione a Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

Note(s): (Ordinary for the Faithful of the Byzantine Rite in Russia)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Oct 1952		Born
14 Aug 1975	22.8	Entered	Member of Society of Jesus
28 May 1983	30.6	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Society of Jesus
27 May 1984	31.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Jesus
13 Apr 1991	38.5	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Siberia, Russian Federation
13 Apr 1991	38.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Bulna
16 Jun 1991	38.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Bulna
18 May 1999	46.6	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Western Siberia {Siberia Occidentale}, Russian Federation
11 Feb 2002	49.3	Appointed	Bishop of Trasfigurazione a Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

MicroData Summary
Joseph Werth
Bishop Joseph Werth S.J.
(born 4 Oct 1952)
Bishop of Trasfigurazione a Novosibirsk

Ad Limina - January 2009: Bishop
Ad Limina - January 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Ordained Priest Saints Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Kaunas, Archdiocese of Kaunas, Lithuania
Ordained Bishop St. Louis of France, Church, Moscow

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Trasfigurazione a Novosibirsk.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Francesco Colasuonno †
Titular Archbishop of Truentum
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz
Titular Bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus
Bishop Juozas Tunaitis †
Titular Bishop of Sassura

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Francesco Colasuonno † (1975)
Titular Archbishop of Truentum
Corrado Cardinal Ursi † (1951)
Archbishop of Napoli {Naples}
Archbishop Carlo Confalonieri † (1941)
Titular Archbishop of Nicopolis ad Nestum
Pope Pius XII (1917)
(Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †)
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Father Stephan Lipke, S.J. (2025)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jerzy Mazur, S.V.D. (1998)
Bishop Clemens Pickel (1998)
Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, F.S.C.B. (2007)
Bishop Nicolai Gennadevich Dubinin, O.F.M. Conv. (2020)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Ordained Priest	Saints Peter and Paul, Cathedral, Kaunas, Archdiocese of Kaunas, Lithuania
Ordained Bishop	St. Louis of France, Church, Moscow

External Link(s):

VIAF: 102460897
WikiData: Q574151

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 127, Number 11,453
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 132, Number 11,914
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 172, Deceased Cardinals (back)
od/loc: CB, 26 Apr 2024

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