Archbishop Herwig Gössl

Archbishop of Bamberg, Germany

Motto: Tu Solus Dominus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Feb 1967		Born
26 Jun 1993	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bamberg, Germany
24 Jan 2014	46.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Bamberg, Germany
24 Jan 2014	46.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Balecium
15 Mar 2014	47.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Balecium
2 Nov 2022	55.6	Appointed	Administrator of Bamberg, Germany
9 Dec 2023	56.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Bamberg, Germany
2 Mar 2024	57.0	Installed	Archbishop of Bamberg, Germany

MicroData Summary
Herwig Gössl
Archbishop Herwig Gössl
(born 22 Feb 1967)
Archbishop of Bamberg

Ad Limina - November 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place München, Archdiocese of München und Freising {Munich}
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Bamberg, Archdiocese of Bamberg

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Bamberg.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Elmar Maria Kredel †
Archbishop of Bamberg
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Ludwig Schick
Archbishop of Bamberg
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Karl Heinrich Braun
Archbishop Emeritus of Bamberg
Bishop Werner Radspieler †
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Bamberg

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Ludwig Schick (1998)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Johannes Dyba † (1979)
Bishop of Fulda
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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:
Bishop Paul Reder (2024)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 306277442
WikiData: Q15646439

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 24 Jan 2014
ob/c2: CB, 28 Jan 2014
c34: CB, 11 Mar 2014
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 217, Number 18,112
ab: Bollettino, 9 Dec 2023
dadm/c1: CB, 9 Dec 2023
i: CB, 23 Dec 2023

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