Bishop Wolfgang Kirchgässner

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Freiburg im Breisgau

Titular Bishop of Druas

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Jun 1928		Born	Mannheim
30 May 1954	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
29 Nov 1979	51.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
29 Nov 1979	51.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Druas
10 Feb 1980	51.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Druas
31 Dec 1998	70.6	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Oskar Saier †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Karl Gnädinger †
Bishop Anton Herre †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Wolfgang Kirchgässner (1980)
Archbishop Oskar Saier † (1972)
Archbishop Hermann Josef Schäufele † (1955)
Archbishop Eugen Viktor Paul Seiterich † (1952)
Archbishop Wendelin Rauch † (1948)
Josef Cardinal Frings † (1942)
Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo † (1922)
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Joseph Hippolyte Cardinal Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
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 †

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