Bishop Karlheinz Diez

Auxiliary Bishop of Fulda, Germany

Titular Bishop of Villa Regis

Motto: Unum Corpus Et Unus Spiritus In Christo

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Feb 1954		Born
19 Mar 1977	23.0	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Fulda, Germany
10 Oct 1978	24.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Fulda, Germany
13 Jul 2004	50.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Fulda, Germany
13 Jul 2004	50.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Villa Regis
26 Sep 2004	50.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Villa Regis

MicroData Summary
Karlheinz Diez
Bishop Karlheinz Diez
(born 20 Feb 1954)
Auxiliary Bishop of Fulda

Ad Limina - November 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - November 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Freigericht-Horbach, Diocese of Fulda
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Fulda, Diocese of Fulda

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Fulda.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Deacon by:
Bishop Eduard Schick †
Bishop of Fulda
Ordained Priest by:
László Cardinal Lékai †
Archbishop of Esztergom
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Heinz Josef Algermissen
Bishop of Fulda
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Johannes Kapp †
Titular Bishop of Melzi
Bishop Czeslaw Kozon
Bishop of København {Copenhagen}

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Heinz Josef Algermissen (1996)
Bishop of Fulda
Archbishop Johannes Joachim Degenhardt † (1968)
Archbishop of Paderborn
Lorenz Cardinal Jäger (Jaeger) † (1941)
Archbishop of Paderborn
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

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/291419
VIAF: 265030457
WikiData: Q91783

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 176, Number 14,696
od/c01: CB, 11 Feb 2014

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