Bishop Rainer Klug

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Titular Bishop of Ala Miliaria

Motto: Spiritu Ambulate

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Dec 1938		Born
15 May 1969	30.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
23 May 2000	61.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
23 May 2000	61.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Ala Miliaria
29 Jun 2000	61.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Ala Miliaria
21 Nov 2013	74.9	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

MicroData Summary
Rainer Klug
Bishop Rainer Klug
(born 13 Dec 1938)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Freiburg im Breisgau

Ad Limina - November 2006: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Konstanz, Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Freiburg im Breisgau, Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Oskar Saier †
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Joseph Pierre Aimé Marie Doré, P.S.S.
Archbishop of Strasbourg
Bishop Paul Friedrich Wehrle
Titular Bishop of Nova Germania

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Oskar Saier † (1972)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Archbishop Hermann Josef Schäufele † (1955)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Archbishop Eugen Viktor Paul Seiterich † (1952)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Archbishop Wendelin Rauch † (1948)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Josef Cardinal Frings † (1942)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
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 Michael Gerber (2013)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 171749160
WikiData: Q91790

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 159, Number 13,795
r: Bollettino, 21 Nov 2013

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