Bishop Franz Jung

Bishop of Würzburg, Germany

Motto: Spem Ancoram Animae

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Jun 1966		Born
10 Oct 1992	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Speyer, Germany
16 Feb 2018	51.6	Appointed	Bishop of Würzburg, Germany
10 Jun 2018	52.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Würzburg, Germany

MicroData Summary
Franz Jung
Bishop Franz Jung
(born 4 Jun 1966)
Bishop of Würzburg

Event Place
Birth Place Ludwigshafen, Diocese of Speyer
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Sankt Kilian, Cathedral, Würzburg, Diocese of Würzburg

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Würzburg.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Franz Kamphaus †
Bishop of Limburg
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Ludwig Schick
Archbishop of Bamberg
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann
Bishop of Speyer
Bishop Friedhelm Hofmann
Bishop Emeritus of Würzburg

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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Paul Reder (2024)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 298169619
WikiData: Q15444755

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 16 Feb 2018
ob: CB, 27 Feb 2018
c2+: CB, 27 Feb 2018
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 236, Number 19,789

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