Bishop Paul Wilhelm Keppler †

Deceased

Bishop of Rottenburg, Germany

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Sep 1852		Born
2 Aug 1874	21.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rottenburg, Germany
11 Nov 1898	46.1	Selected	Bishop of Rottenburg, Germany
28 Nov 1898	46.1	Confirmed	Bishop of Rottenburg, Germany
18 Jan 1899	46.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Rottenburg, Germany
16 Jul 1926	73.8	Died	Bishop of Rottenburg, Germany

MicroData Summary for Paul Wilhelm Keppler
(VIAF: 27867475; WikiData: Q2063134)
Bishop Paul Wilhelm Keppler (born 28 Sep 1852, died 16 Jul 1926) Bishop of Rottenburg

Event Place
Birth Place Schwäbisch Gmünd
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Rottenburg, Diocese of Rottenburg

a priest for 51.9 years
a bishop for 27.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Thomas Nörber †
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Paul Leopold Haffner †
Bishop of Mainz
Bishop Petrus von Hötzl, O.F.M. Ref. †
Bishop of Augsburg

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Thomas Nörber † (1898)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Bishop Paul Leopold Haffner † (1886)
Bishop of Mainz
Bishop Johannes Christian Roos † (1885)
Bishop of Limburg
Bishop Georg von Kopp † (1881)
Bishop of Fulda
Bishop Daniel Wilhelm Sommerwerk (Jacobi) † (1871)
Bishop of Hildesheim
Bishop Johannes Heinrich Beckmann † (1866)
Bishop of Osnabrück
Archbishop Paul Ludolf Melchers, S.J. † (1858)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Bishop Eduard Jakob Wedekin † (1850)
Bishop of Hildesheim
Johannes Cardinal von Geissel † (1837)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Joseph Maria Johann Nepomuk von Fraunberg † (1821)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Francesco Serra Cassano † (1818)
Titular Archbishop of Nicaea
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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 Johann Baptist Sproll † (1916)
Archbishop Karl Fritz † (1920)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Heinrich Brück (Brueck) † (1900)
Bishop Josef Damian Schmitt † (1907)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Schwäbisch Gmünd
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Rottenburg, Diocese of Rottenburg

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 487
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1899, Number 5

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