Catholic Church Law, Structure, and Governance

I found the web site www.catholic-hierarchy.org which provides interesting information on bishops around the Church and provides lineage information about them. This is the lineage of Pope Benedict XVI:

• Pope Joseph Ratzinger (1977)
• Bishop Josef Stangl † (1957)
• Archbishop Josef Schneider † (1955)
• Joseph Cardinal Wendel † (1941)
• Bishop Ludwig Sebastian † (1917)
• Archbishop Johann Jakob von Hauck † (1912)
• Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör † (1898)
• Archbishop Joseph von Schork † (1891)
• Archbishop Franz Joseph von Stein † (1879)
• Archbishop Friedrich von Schreiber † (1875)
• Archbishop Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr, O.S.B. † (1856)
• Antonio Saverio Cardinal De Luca † (1845)
• Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
• Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galeffi † (1819)
• Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
• Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
• Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
• Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
• Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
• Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
• Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
• Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
• Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
• Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
• Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
• Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
• Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Cardinal Rebiba is a common point of origin for many of today’s bishops due, in part, to the active ordination activity of his Pope.