Bishop Francis-Xavier Gsell, M.S.C. †

Deceased

Bishop of Darwin, Australia

Titular Bishop of Paros

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Oct 1872		Born
30 May 1896	23.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
23 Apr 1906	33.4	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Victoria-Palmerston, Australia
29 Mar 1938	65.4	Appointed	Bishop of Darwin, Australia
5 Jun 1938	65.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Darwin, Australia
10 Nov 1948	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Darwin, Australia
10 Nov 1948	76.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Paros
12 Jul 1960	87.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Darwin, Australia

MicroData Summary for Francis-Xavier Gsell
(VIAF: 91702355; WikiData: Q5482885)
Bishop Francis-Xavier Gsell M.S.C. (born 30 Oct 1872, died 12 Jul 1960) Bishop of Darwin

Event Place
Birth Place Banfeld, Diocese of Strasbourg, France
Ordained Bishop Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Church, Randwick, Archdiocese of Sydney
Death Place Randwick, Archdiocese of Sydney

a priest for 64.1 years
a bishop for 22.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Giovanni Panico †
Titular Archbishop of Iustiniana Prima
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Norman Thomas Gilroy †
Titular Archbishop of Cypsela
Bishop Joseph Bach, M.S.C. †
Titular Bishop of Eriza

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Giovanni Panico † (1935)
Titular Archbishop of Iustiniana Prima
Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni Biondi † (1916)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop André Sorin, M.S.C. † (1946)

Source(s):

bp/ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1938, Number 44

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