Kessler, Joseph Aloysius, 1862-1933

LC control no.	no 93020964
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Kessler, Joseph Aloysius, 1862-1933 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Kessler, Josef Alois, 1862-1933
Birth date	1862-08-12
Death date	1933-12-10
Place of birth	Russia
Place of death	Zinnowitz (Germany)
Profession or occupation	Clergy Bishops
Found in	His Geschichte der Diözese Tyraspol, 1930: t.p. (Joseph Aloysius Kessler, Titular-Erzbischof von Bosporus, vormals Bischof von Tyraspol) OCLC data base, 7-15-93 (hdg.: Kessler, Joseph Aloysius, Abp., 1862-1933) Volga German Institute, via WWW, August 9, 2022 (Kessler, Joseph Aloysius; Archbishop Kessler was born on 12 August 1862 in Louis; he was appointed Bishop of Tiraspol on 1 April 1904 and was consecrated the 5th Bishop of Tiraspol on 28 October 1904 and took residence in the diocesan headquarters in Saratov; he left Saratov in August 1917 and moved to Odessa and then Krasna in Bessarabia in January 1920, finally to Berlin in September 1921; he made a trip to the United States to raise funds for the famine stricken among the German colonies along the Volga as well as in the Black Sea area; he retired to a cloister in Zinnowitz on the Baltic Sea, giving up his diocesan office on 27 November 1929; he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Bosprous on 23 January 1930; he died on 10 December 1933 and is buried by the side of his predecessor in office, Franz Xavier Zottmann, in Ornbau in Central Franconia) Wikipedia, August 9, 2022 (Josef Alois Kessler; Joseph Aloysius Kessler (German: Josef Alois Kessler); August 12, 1862, Louis (Ostrogovka), Russia--December 10, 1933, Zinnowitz, Germany) was the last bishop of the Diocese of Tiraspol (Russia) and the last Volga German bishop till Bishop Joseph Werth, SJ;