Bishop Johannes Kreidler

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany

Titular Bishop of Edistiana

Motto: Der Versöhnung Dienen

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
31 May 1946		Born
18 Mar 1972	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rottenburg, Germany
6 Jun 1991	45.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
6 Jun 1991	45.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Edistiana
31 Aug 1991	45.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Edistiana
2 Mar 2017	70.7	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany

MicroData Summary
Johannes Kreidler
Bishop Johannes Kreidler
(born 31 May 1946)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

Ad Limina - November 2006: Bishop
Ad Limina - November 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Horb-Grünmettstetten
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Rottenburg, Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Walter Kasper
Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Bernhard Rieger, P. Schönstatt †
Titular Bishop of Tigava
Bishop Franz Josef Kuhnle †
Titular Bishop of Sorres

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Walter Kasper (1989)
Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
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 Thomas Maria Renz (1997)
Bishop Martin Roos (1999)
Bishop Gebhard Fürst (2000)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 121055848
WikiData: Q100382

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 129, Number 11,607
r: Bollettino, 2 Mar 2017

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