Bishop Franz Joseph Friedrich Ambuel †

Deceased

Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Feb 1704³		Born
17 Aug 1727	23.4	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland
29 Sep 1727	23.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland
18 Dec 1760	56.8	Selected	Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland
25 May 1761	57.2	Confirmed	Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland
30 Nov 1761	57.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland
11 Apr 1780	76.1	Died	Bishop of Sion {Sitten}, Switzerland

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Franz Joseph Friedrich Ambuel
(VIAF: 14427959; WikiData: Q64733539)
Bishop Franz Joseph Friedrich Ambuel (born 29 Feb 1704, died 11 Apr 1780) Bishop of Sion {Sitten}

Event Place
Birth Place Sion, Diocese of Sion {Sitten}
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Sion, Diocese of Sion {Sitten}

a priest for 52.5 years
a bishop for 18.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Joseph-Nicolas de Montenach †
Bishop of Lausanne
Assisted by:
Abbot Jean Joseph Claret, C.R.A. †
Abbot of Saint-Maurice
Abbot Aimé-Marie Dichat de Toisinge
Abbot

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joseph-Nicolas de Montenach † (1759)
Bishop of Lausanne
Bishop Georg Joseph Wilhelm Aloys Rinck von Baldenstein † (1744)
Bishop of Basel
Archbishop Antoine-Pierre de Grammont † (1735)
Archbishop of Besançon
Archbishop Melchior de Polignac † (1726)
Archbishop of Auch
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Sion, Diocese of Sion {Sitten}
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Sion, Diocese of Sion {Sitten}

Source(s):

b: Die Bischöfe der Deutschsprachigen Länder
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1761, Number 31
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 372
b/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 225, Number 18,625
c4: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 243, Additions/Corrections (front)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 50, Number 3,432

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