Karl Cardinal Lehmann †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Mainz, Germany

Cardinal-Priest of San Leone I

Motto: State In Fide

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 May 1936		Born
30 Mar 1963	26.8	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
10 Oct 1963	27.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
21 Jun 1983	47.0	Appointed	Bishop of Mainz, Germany
2 Oct 1983	47.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Mainz, Germany
21 Feb 2001	64.7	Elevated to Cardinal
21 Feb 2001	64.7	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Leone I
24 May 2001	65.0	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of San Leone I
16 May 2016	80.0	Retired	Bishop of Mainz, Germany
11 Mar 2018	81.8	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Mainz, Germany

MicroData Summary
Karl Lehmann
Karl Cardinal Lehmann
(born 16 May 1936, died 11 Mar 2018)
Bishop Emeritus of Mainz

Consistory - 2001: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated
Ad Limina - November 2006: Bishop
Conclave - 2013: Participated
Ad Limina - November 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Sigmaringen, Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau
Ordained Priest Sant’Ignazio, Church, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop St. Martin, Cathedral, Mainz, Diocese of Mainz
Death Place Mainz, Diocese of Mainz

a priest for 54.4 years
a bishop for 34.4 years
a cardinal for 17.0 years

Ordained Deacon by:
Julius August Cardinal Döpfner †
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Ordained Priest by:
Julius August Cardinal Döpfner †
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Principal Consecrator:
Hermann Cardinal Volk †
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Fabiano e Venanzio a Villa Fiorelli
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Oskar Saier †
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Bishop Wolfgang Rolly †
Titular Bishop of Taborenta

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Hermann Cardinal Volk † (1962)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Fabiano e Venanzio a Villa Fiorelli
Archbishop Hermann Josef Schäufele † (1955)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Archbishop Eugen Viktor Paul Seiterich † (1952)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Archbishop Wendelin Rauch † (1948)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Josef Cardinal Frings † (1942)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo † (1922)
Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Libya
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Franziskus Eisenbach † (1988)
Bishop Werner Guballa † (2003)
Bishop Ulrich Neymeyr (2003)
Bishop Teemu Jyrki Juhani Sippo, S.C.I. (2009)
Archbishop Udo Markus Bentz (2015)
Bishop Peter Kohlgraf (2017)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Walter Cardinal Kasper (1989)
Bishop Ivo Fürer † (1995)
Bishop Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger (1995)
Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal Müller (2002)
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch (2003)
Archbishop Stephan Burger (2014)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/115324
VIAF: 54150508
WikiData: Q45019

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 110, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 16 May 2016
d: CB, 11 Mar 2018
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 235, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 82, Number 6,749

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