Titular Bishops of Rhodiapolis, Life Spans

Titular Bishops of Rhodiapolis, Life Spans · What about its Metropolitan Titular See, Myra?

1671-1672

Bishop Louis de Thomassin born 1637, died 1718 (as bishop of Sisteron), at 80.9 years age.

1703-1723

Bishop Maximilian Heinrich von Weichs zu Rösberg, born 1651, died 1723 (as titular bishop of Rhodiapolis, and auxiliary bishop of Hildesheim), at 72.4 years age.

1724 - 1770

Bishop Franz Kaspar von Franken-Siersdorf born 1683, died 1770 (as titular bishop of Rhodiapolis, and auxiliary bishop of Cologne / Köln), at 86.2 years age.

1828-1829

Bishop Joseph Vitus Burg born 1768, died 1833 (as bishop of Mainz), at 64.7 years age.

1832-1836

Archbishop Stanislao Vincenzo Tomba, B., born 1782, died 1847 (as archbishop of Camerino), at 64.8 years age.

1840-1842

Bishop Andreas (André) Räß (Raess), born 1794, died 1887 (as bishop of Strassburg), at 93.6 years age.

1844-1861

Bishop Taddeo Łubieński, born 1794 (yes, he too), died 1861 (as titular bishop of Rhodiapolis, and auxiliary bishop of Włocławek) at 66.5 years age.

1863-1865

Bishop Nicholas Conaty, born c. 1820, died 1886 (as bishop of Kilmore) at 66.0 years age, was a Council Father at the Vatican Council of 1869 to 1870.

1866

Bishop Robert William Willson, born 1794 (yes, he too), died 1866 (as bishop emeritus of Hobart and titular bishop of Rhodiapolis) at 71.5 years age.

1868-1901

Bishop Paul Tosi, O.F.M. Cap., born 1826, died 1901 (as titular bishop of Rhodiapolis and Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Punjab) at 75.1 years age.

1904-1921

Bishop Vince Palunko, born 1842, died 1921 (as titular bishop of Rhodiapolis and Auxiliary Bishop of Split-Makarska) at 79.2 years age.

1924-1935

Bishop Joseph Casimir Plagens, born 1880, died 1943 (as Bishop of Grand Rapids) at 63.1 years age.

1936-1965

Bishop Jean-Louis-Antoine-Joseph Coudert, O.M.I., born 1895, died 1965 (as titular bishop of Rhodiapolis and Vicar Apostolic of Whitehorse, having been Council Father for sessions one to four of the "Second Vatican Council" which he may have presumed to have been licit and valid), at 70.2 years age.

Source : Rhodiapolis (Titular See) Rhodiapolitanus
on Catholic Hierarchy
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d2r21.html

Why did I look this see up? Well, I just had occasion to revisit the noble bishop Coudert, OMI.

As Kevin Annett had accused Catholic Hospitals and Boarding Schools for First Nations to consciously expose the inmates to death in tuberculosis, I gave some facts here:

Triviū, Quadriviū, 7 cætera : Bishop Coudert has offered to pay for hospital ...
https://triv7quadriv.blogspot.com/2013/03/bishop-coudert-has-offered-to-pay-for.html

But now to business. None of the lifespans is Medieval, but many of them are born prior to 1700 outside England (childhood in pre-industrial times) and those who were not so but after 1700 seemed to have been born and had a childhood in areas like 19th C. Poland or Canada. Perhaps with an exception for Bishop Vince Palunko who was born in 1842 in Austro-Hungarian Empire where it was fairly well off and after industrialism came to Continental Europe.

So, not just a prior half, but nearly all would be representative of a pre-industrial lifespan. But I'll do an experiment. I'll make a median for overall and then one for each of first and second half. Whereas the number is uneven, I'll use the mid one as last of first half, those born prior to 1800. I start out the following with a series with lifespan years in the same sequence as their titles and I go on to copy it and the pasted copy I cut the 13 into 7 + 6 and then for each I rearrange in order of age. Finally, putting out minimum and maximum after that is a so called but not real no-brainer and the median takes some dividing to see where the middle is, and for the total I also made the lower and upper quartiles. For even numbers of items, a median is either taken from or as here given as the values surrounding the empty middle.

Total at 63.1 years age. Minimum at 64.7 years age. at 64.8 years age. at 66.0 years age. Lower quartile at 66.5 years age. at 70.2 years age. at 71.5 years age. Median at 72.4 years age. at 75.1 years age. at 79.2 years age. Upper quartile at 80.9 years age. at 86.2 years age. at 93.6 years age. Maximum	First half at 64.7 years age. Minimum at 64.8 years age. at 66.5 years age. at 72.4 years age. Median at 80.9 years age. at 86.2 years age. at 93.6 years age. Maximum
	Second half at 63.1 years age. Minimum at 66.0 years age. at 70.2 years age. Median A at 71.5 years age. Median B at 75.1 years age. at 79.2 years age. Maximum

So, total has median 71.5 years. First half has median 72.4 years age. Second half has median between 70.2 and 71.5.

I can conclude that first and second half of the titular bishops of Rhodiapolis (which is under Myra, the see of St. Nicolas!) lived under fairly comparable health conditions, as they led to fairly comparable life spans.

Hans Georg Lundahl
St. Maur des Fossés
St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr
21.I.2020

Romae passio sanctae Agnetis, Virginis et Martyris; quae, sub Praefecto Urbis Symphronio, ignibus injecta, sed iis per orationem ejus exstinctis, gladio percussa est. De ea beatus Hieronymus haec scribit: "Omnium gentium litteris atque linguis, praecipue in Ecclesiis, Agnetis vita laudata est; quae et aetatem vicit et tyrannum, et titulum castitatis martyrio consecravit."