Sebastien Knab

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}

{{Infobox Christian leader

| type = Bishop

| honorific-prefix = Most Reverend

| name = Sebastien Knab

| title = Archbishop of Nakhijevan

| image =

| alt =

| caption =

| church = Catholic Church

| archdiocese = Archdiocese of Nakhchivan

| diocese =

| see =

| term = 1682–1690

| predecessor = Thomas Tatumensis

| successor = Paul Baptiste Avanian

| ordination =

| ordained_by =

| consecration = 18 October 1682

| consecrated_by = Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal)

| cardinal =

| rank =

| birth_date = c. 1632

| birth_place = Bamberg, Germany

| death_date = 8 September 1690

| death_place = Nakhchivan, Safavid dynasty

| previous_post =

| nationality = German

}}

Sebastien Knab, O.P. (c. 1632 – 8 September 1690) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Nakhijevan (1682–1690).{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol05eubeuoft|last1=Ritzler|first1=Remigius|last2=Sefrin|first2=Pirminus|title=HIERARCHIA CATHOLICA MEDII ET RECENTIORIS AEVI Vol V|pages=281|date=1952|publisher=Messagero di S. Antonio|location=Patavii|ISBN=}} (in Latin)[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bknabs.html "Archbishop Sebastien Knab, O.P. "] Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved August 14, 2016[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dn531.html "Archdiocese of Nachitschewan (Naxivan, Nakhtchevan, Nakhchivan)"] Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/nach0.htm "Archdiocese of Nachitschewan”] GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016

Biography

Sebastien Knab was born in Bamberg in around 1632 and ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers. On 28 September 1682, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XI as Archbishop of Nakhchivan. On 18 October 1682, he was consecrated bishop by Alessandro Crescenzi (cardinal), Bishop of Recanati e Loreto, with Odoardo Cibo, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria, and Gregorio Carducci, Bishop of Valva e Sulmona, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Archbishop of Nakhchivan until his death on 8 September 1690.

References

{{reflist}}

{{s-start}}

{{s-rel|ca}}

{{succession box

| title = Archbishop of Nakhchivan

| years = 1682–1690

| before = Thomas Tatumensis

| after = Paul Baptiste Avanian}}

{{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Knab, Sebastien}}

Category:17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Ottoman Empire

Category:Bishops appointed by Pope Innocent XI

Category:1632 births

Category:1690 deaths

Category:Dominican bishops

Category:17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Safavid Iran

{{Subject bar |portal1= Biography |portal2= Catholicism}}

{{Asia-RC-archbishop-stub}}