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Alejandro Schell

Roman Catholic bishop (1897-1972)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ64735121 ↗
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Alejandro Schell (9 October 1897 – 1972) was a Bessarabia German clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lomas de Zamora. He became ordained in 1922. He was appointed bishop in 1958.

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“Alejandro Schell” enters the record as roman Catholic bishop (1897-1972). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alejandro, Schell and Roman can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1897, 1972, 1922, 1958—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1897-10-09. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Alejandro, Schell and Roman.
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“Alejandro Schell” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Alejandro, Schell and Roman provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q64735121. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1897, 1972, 1922 and 1958.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alejandro Schell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.