Bishop Werner Freistetter

Bishop of Austria, Military

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Oct 1953		Born
9 Oct 1979	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Wien {Vienna}, Austria
16 Apr 2015	61.4	Appointed	Bishop of Austria, Military
11 Jun 2015	61.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Austria, Military
28 Jun 2019	65.6	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Gurk, Austria
2 Feb 2020	66.2	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Gurk, Austria

MicroData Summary for Werner Freistetter
(VIAF: 52366102; WikiData: Q19803223)
Bishop Werner Freistetter (born 28 Oct 1953) Bishop of Austria, Military

Event Place
Birth Place Linz
Ordained Bishop Assumption of Mary, Cathedral, Wiener Neustadt

Please contact the Bishop through the Military Ordinariate of Austria, Military.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Franz Cardinal König †
Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Stephan Zurbriggen †
Titular Archbishop of Glastonia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Franz Lackner, O.F.M.
Archbishop of Salzburg
Bishop Christian Werner
Bishop Emeritus of Austria, Military
Bishop František Rábek
Bishop of Slovakia, Military
Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, O.P.
Archbishop of Wien {Vienna}

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Peter Stephan Zurbriggen † (1994)
Titular Archbishop of Glastonia
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Josef Marketz (2020)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Linz
Ordained Bishop	Assumption of Mary, Cathedral, Wiener Neustadt

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 16 Apr 2015
ob: CB, 16 Apr 2015
c2: CB, 29 May 2015
c3+: CB, 11 Jun 2015
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 223, Number 18,504
ab: Bollettino, 28 Jun 2019

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