Bishop Manfred Grothe

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paderborn, Germany

Titular Bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Apr 1939		Born
11 Mar 1967	27.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Paderborn, Germany
14 Oct 2004	65.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany
14 Oct 2004	65.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus
5 Dec 2004	65.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus
26 Mar 2014	74.9	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Limburg, Germany
15 Jul 2015	76.2	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany
18 Sep 2016	77.4	Ceased	Apostolic Administrator of Limburg, Germany

MicroData Summary
Manfred Grothe
Bishop Manfred Grothe
(born 4 Apr 1939)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Paderborn

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

Event Place
Birth Place Warburg

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Paderborn.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Lorenz Cardinal Jäger (Jaeger) †
Archbishop of Paderborn
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker
Archbishop of Paderborn
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann
Titular Bishop of Macriana Minor
Bishop Paul Consbruch †
Titular Bishop of Gor

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker (2000)
Archbishop of Paderborn
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Hubert Berenbrinker (2008)
Bishop Dominicus (Michael) Meier, O.S.B. (2015)
Bishop Georg Bätzing (2016)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 1708161634372010850000
WikiData: Q107255

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Number 14,721
ab: Bollettino, 26 Mar 2014
r: Bollettino, 15 Jul 2015

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