Bishop Eberhard (Hermann) Spiess, O.S.B. †

Deceased

Abbot Emeritus of Songea, Tanzania

Titular Bishop of Cemerinianus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 May 1902		Born
2 Jun 1925	23.0	Professed	Member of Order of Saint Benedict
9 Mar 1930	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict
23 Sep 1953	51.3	Appointed	Abbot of Peramiho, Tanzania
23 Sep 1953	51.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cemerinianus
3 Dec 1953	51.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cemerinianus
6 Feb 1969	66.7	Resigned	Abbot of Songea, Tanzania
17 Sep 1990	88.3	Died	Abbot Emeritus of Songea, Tanzania

MicroData Summary for Eberhard (Hermann) Spiess
Bishop Eberhard (Hermann) Spiess O.S.B. (born 6 May 1902, died 17 Sep 1990) Abbot Emeritus of Songea

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

Event Place
Birth Place Ertingen, Germany

a priest for 60.5 years
a bishop for 36.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop James Robert Knox †
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Gallus (Bernhard) Steiger, O.S.B. †
Titular Bishop of Chalcis in Graecia
Bishop Anthony Victor Haelg (Hälg), O.S.B. †
Titular Bishop of Baia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Vicar General of Roma {Rome}
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop James Joseph Komba † (1962)
Bishop Maurus Gervase Komba † (1970)
Bishop Raymond Mwanyika † (1971)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Ertingen, Germany

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 114, Number 10,116
c4: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 115, Additions/Corrections (front)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 125

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