Bishop Wolfgang Ipolt

Bishop of Görlitz, Germany

Motto: Odorem Notitiae Christi Manifestare

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Mar 1954		Born
30 Jun 1979	25.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Erfurt, Germany
18 Jun 2011	57.2	Appointed	Bishop of Görlitz, Germany
28 Aug 2011	57.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Görlitz, Germany

MicroData Summary
Wolfgang Ipolt
Bishop Wolfgang Ipolt
(born 17 Mar 1954)
Bishop of Görlitz

Ad Limina - November 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Gotha, Diocese of Erfurt
Ordained Bishop Sankt Jakobus, Cathedral, Görlitz, Diocese of Görlitz

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Görlitz.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki
Archbishop of Berlin
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Konrad Zdarsa
Bishop of Augsburg
Bishop Joachim Wanke †
Bishop of Erfurt

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki (2003)
Archbishop of Berlin
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

External Link(s):

VIAF: 281471721
WikiData: Q71513

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 18 Jun 2011
ob/c2+: CB, 9 Aug 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 207, Number 17,132

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