Bishop Karl Borsch

Auxiliary Bishop of Aachen, Germany

Titular Bishop of Crepedula

Motto: Quaerite Primum Regnum Dei

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Aug 1959		Born
26 Sep 1992	33.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Aachen, Germany
21 Nov 2003	44.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Aachen, Germany
21 Nov 2003	44.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Crepedula
17 Jan 2004	44.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Crepedula

MicroData Summary
Karl Borsch
Bishop Karl Borsch
(born 1 Aug 1959)
Auxiliary Bishop of Aachen

Ad Limina - November 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Krefeld-Hüls, Diocese of Aachen
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Aachen, Diocese of Aachen

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Aachen.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Heinrich Mussinghoff
Bishop of Aachen
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Ernst Franz Gerd Werner Dicke
Titular Bishop of Iria Flavia
Bishop Karl Reger †
Titular Bishop of Árd Sratha

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Heinrich Mussinghoff (1995)
Bishop of Aachen
Joachim Cardinal Meisner † (1975)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Bishop Hugo Aufderbeck † (1962)
Titular Bishop of Arca in Phoenicia
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 †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Johannes Bündgens (2006)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 181635012
WikiData: Q73707

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 174, Number 14,514

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