Bishop Franz Josef Kuhnle †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany

Titular Bishop of Sorres

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Apr 1926		Born
20 Jul 1952	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rottenburg, Germany
13 Oct 1976	50.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg, Germany
13 Oct 1976	50.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sorres
27 Nov 1976	50.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sorres
7 Nov 1990	64.5	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
4 Feb 2021	94.7	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany

MicroData Summary for Franz Josef Kuhnle
(VIAF: 171383014; WikiData: Q90123)
Bishop Franz Josef Kuhnle (born 27 Apr 1926, died 4 Feb 2021) Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

Event Place
Birth Place Ravensburg
Ordained Bishop S. Fidelis, Stuttgard, Diocese of Rottenburg
Death Place Tettnang

a priest for 68.5 years
a bishop for 44.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Georg Moser †
Bishop of Rottenburg
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Carl Joseph Leiprecht †
Bishop Emeritus of Rottenburg
Bishop Anton Herre †
Titular Bishop of Calatia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Georg Moser † (1970)
Bishop of Rottenburg
Bishop Carl Joseph Leiprecht † (1948)
Bishop of Rottenburg
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 Bernhard Rieger, P. Schönstatt † (1985)
Walter Cardinal Kasper (1989)
Bishop Johannes Kreidler (1991)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Ravensburg
Ordained Bishop	S. Fidelis, Stuttgard, Diocese of Rottenburg
Death Place	Tettnang

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 39, Number 2,440
d: CB, 5 Feb 2021
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 250, Necrology (back)

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