Bishop Gerhard Schaffran †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Dresden-Meißen (Meissen)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Jul 1912		Born	Leschnitz
1 Aug 1937	25.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
24 Nov 1962	50.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Görlitz, Germany
24 Nov 1962	50.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Semnea
22 Jan 1963	50.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Semnea
12 Sep 1970	58.2	Appointed	Bishop of Meißen (Meissen), Germany
23 Sep 1970	58.2	Installed	Bishop of Meißen (Meissen), Germany
1 Aug 1987	75.1	Retired	Bishop of Dresden-Meißen (Meissen), Germany
4 Mar 1996	83.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Dresden-Meißen (Meissen), Germany

Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

a priest for 58.6 years
a bishop for 33.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Adolf Cardinal Bertram †
Archbishop of Wrocław {Breslavia}
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Alfred Bengsch †
Bishop of Berlin
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Friedrich Maria Heinrich Rintelen †
Titular Bishop of Chusira
Bishop Hugo Aufderbeck †
Titular Bishop of Arca in Phoenicia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Alfred Bengsch † (1959)
Bishop of Berlin
Julius August Cardinal Döpfner † (1948)
Bishop of Berlin
Archbishop Joseph Otto Kolb † (1935)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Johann Jakob von Hauck † (1912)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör † (1898)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Joseph von Schork † (1891)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Franz Joseph von Stein † (1879)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Friedrich Josef von Schreiber † (1875)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr, O.S.B. † (1856)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Archbishop Antonio Saverio De Luca † (1845)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Konrad Zdarsa (1974)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Bernhard Huhn † (1971)
Bishop Georg Weinhold (1973)
Bishop Joachim Friedrich Reinelt (1988)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Heinrich Theissing † (1963)
Bishop Hans-Georg (Johannes) Braun † (1970)
Bishop Johannes Kleineidam † (1970)

Source(s):

c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1963
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 148, Necrology (back)

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