Bishop Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hildesheim, Germany

Titular Bishop of Fussala

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Oct 1948		Born
5 Jun 1982	33.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Hildesheim, Germany
19 Jun 1995	46.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany
19 Jun 1995	46.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Fussala
23 Sep 1995	46.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Fussala
2 Oct 2023	75.0	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany

MicroData Summary
Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger
Bishop Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger
(born 1 Oct 1948)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hildesheim

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

Event Place
Birth Place Haar, Archdiocese of München und Freising {Munich}
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Hildesheim, Diocese of Hildesheim

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Hildesheim.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen †
Bishop of Hildesheim
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Josef Homeyer †
Bishop of Hildesheim
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Karl Lehmann †
Bishop of Mainz
Bishop Hans-Georg Koitz
Titular Bishop of Cantanus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Josef Homeyer † (1983)
Bishop of Hildesheim
Joseph Cardinal Höffner † (1962)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Bishop Matthias Wehr † (1951)
Bishop of Trier
Archbishop Aloisius Joseph Muench † (1935)
Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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 Heinz-Günter Bongartz (2011)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 41963394
WikiData: Q97509

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143, Number 12,612
r: Bollettino, 2 Oct 2023

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