Bishop Heinrich Theissing †

Deceased

Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Schwerin, Germany

Titular Bishop of Mina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
11 Dec 1917		Born
21 Dec 1940	23.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
13 Mar 1963	45.2	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Berlin, Germany
13 Mar 1963	45.2	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Mina
7 May 1963	45.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Mina
12 Feb 1970	52.1	Appointed	Coadjutor Apostolic Administrator of Schwerin, Germany
23 Jul 1973	55.6	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Schwerin, Germany
5 Dec 1987	69.9	Resigned	Apostolic Administrator of Schwerin, Germany
11 Nov 1988	70.9	Died	Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Schwerin, Germany

MicroData Summary
Heinrich Theissing
Bishop Heinrich Theissing
(born 11 Dec 1917, died 11 Nov 1988)
Apostolic Administrator Emeritus of Schwerin

Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Neisse, Diocese of Wrocław (Breslau), Poland
Ordained Bishop Berlin, Diocese of Berlin
Death Place Schwerin, Apostolic Administration of Schwerin

a priest for 47.8 years
a bishop for 25.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Adolf Cardinal Bertram †
Archbishop of Wrocław {Breslavia}
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Alfred Bengsch †
Bishop of Berlin
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Hugo Aufderbeck †
Titular Bishop of Arca in Phoenicia
Bishop Gerhard Schaffran †
Titular Bishop of Semnea

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Horst Eberlein (1977)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Norbert Werbs † (1981)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Johannes Kleineidam † (1970)
Bishop Bernhard Huhn † (1971)
Bishop Karl Christian Ebert † (1973)
Bishop Wolfgang Weider † (1982)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 22944119
WikiData: Q1599030

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1963, Number 44

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