Any Bishops with Apostolic Succession?

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A few months ago, I wanted to find out my bishop’s, Bishop Leonard P. Blair’s, line of Apostolic Succession. So I found this website, catholic-hierarchy.org/, and saw that his succession had stopped in the 16th Century with Scipione Cardinal Rebiba. So then I looked up Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Succession and his also stopped at Cardinal Rebiba.

This made me curious, so I looked up Cardinal Rebiba and, according to Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipione_Rebiba), “…more than 90% of all living Catholic bishops can trace their episcopal lineage back to him.” Nobody knows who consecrated him, but many think it was Gian Pietro Carafa (Pope Paul IV). Even if it was Pope Paul, nobody knows who ordained him!

My question though, are there any bishops today in that other 10% that know the line of their succession back to the Apostles?
 
ajpirc said:
A few months ago, I wanted to find out my bishop’s, Bishop Leonard P. Blair’s, line of Apostolic Succession. So I found this website, catholic-hierarchy.org/, and saw that his succession had stopped in the 16th Century with Scipione Cardinal Rebiba. So then I looked up Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Succession and his also stopped at Cardinal Rebiba.

This made me curious, so I looked up Cardinal Rebiba and, according to Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipione_Rebiba), “…more than 90% of all living Catholic bishops can trace their episcopal lineage back to him.” Nobody knows who consecrated him, but many think it was Gian Pietro Carafa (Pope Paul IV). Even if it was Pope Paul, nobody knows who ordained him!

My question though, are there any bishops today in that other 10% that know the line of their succession back to the Apostles?
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There are no bishops who know their line of succession all the way back to the apostles.
That doesn’t mean that they don’t have a line of succession back to the apostles, they certainly do. But we don’t know what it is.

There have been many cases in Church history of records being lost and/or destroyed. And in the first few centuries of the Church, there probably weren’t any records kept at all.
 
Will_S said:
There are no bishops who know their line of succession all the way back to the apostles.
That doesn’t mean that they don’t have a line of succession back to the apostles, they certainly do. But we don’t know what it is.

There have been many cases in Church history of records being lost and/or destroyed. And in the first few centuries of the Church, there probably weren’t any records kept at all.
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Thanks! 👍

Do you know who goes back the farthest?
 
St_Francis said:
I think the ones you found are the ones who go back tbe furthest.
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I think OP’s asking whether the 10% from other than the Rebiba line can be reliably traced back to Bishops from earlier than Cardinal Rebiba’s time.
 
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