Bishop Hans-Reinhard Koch †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Erfurt, Germany

Titular Bishop of Mediana

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Nov 1929		Born
17 Jul 1955	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Erfurt-Meiningen, Germany
15 May 1985	55.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Erfurt-Meiningen, Germany
15 May 1985	55.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mediana
6 Jul 1985	55.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mediana
27 Nov 2004	75.0	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Erfurt, Germany
25 Apr 2018	88.4	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Erfurt, Germany

MicroData Summary
Hans-Reinhard Koch
Bishop Hans-Reinhard Koch
(born 27 Nov 1929, died 25 Apr 2018)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Erfurt

Event Place
Birth Place Leinefelde
Ordained Bishop St. Mary, Cathedral, Erfurt, Apostolic Administration of Erfurt-Meiningen

a priest for 62.7 years
a bishop for 32.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Josef Freusberg †
Titular Bishop of Hadrianopolis in Epiro
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Joachim Wanke
Titular Bishop of Castellum in Mauretania
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Wolfgang Weider †
Titular Bishop of Uzita
Bishop Norbert Werbs †
Titular Bishop of Amaura

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joachim Wanke (1980)
Titular Bishop of Castellum in Mauretania
Bishop Joachim Meisner † (1975)
Bishop of Berlin
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Rudolf Müller † (1987)
Bishop Reinhard Hauke (2005)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 38055323
WikiData: Q91782

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 238, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 92, Number 7,837

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