Bishop Ignatius von Senestrey (born 13 July 1818, Bärnau, Bavaria, Germany - d. 16 August 1906, Regensburg, Germany) was Bishop of Regensburg, Germany from 1858 to 1906.

He was ordained a parish priest by Flavio Chigi [it] on 19 March 1842, aged 23. in Regensburg, Germany. On 27 January 1858, aged 39, he was appointed Bishop of Regensburg and ordained a bishop two months later.^[1]

He died on 16 August 1906, aged 88, in Regensburg. He had been a priest for 64 years and a bishop for 48 years.

He wrote one work, Wie es zur Definition de päpstlichen Unfehlbarkeit kam: Tagebuch vom 1. Vatikan Konzil, on the definition of papal infallibility. It was published after his death.^[2]

• Paul Mai (2010), "Senestrey, Ignatius", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 24, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 252–253; (full text online)
• Johannes Kreuzenbeck (2002). "Senestrey, Ignatius von". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 20. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 1328–1331. ISBN 3-88309-091-3.

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