Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann

Bishop of Speyer, Germany

Motto: Maior Omni Laude

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Aug 1960		Born
10 Oct 1985	25.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Paderborn, Germany
4 Jul 2002	41.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany
4 Jul 2002	41.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Macriana Minor
8 Sep 2002	42.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Macriana Minor
19 Dec 2007	47.3	Appointed	Bishop of Speyer, Germany
2 Mar 2008	47.5	Installed	Bishop of Speyer, Germany

MicroData Summary
Karl-Heinz Wiesemann
Bishop Karl-Heinz Wiesemann
(born 1 Aug 1960)
Bishop of Speyer

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

Event Place
Birth Place Herford
Ordained Priest Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Paderborn, Archdiocese of Paderborn

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Speyer.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Franz Cardinal König †
Archbishop Emeritus of Wien {Vienna}
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Joachim Wanke †
Bishop of Erfurt
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Hans-Josef Becker
Titular Bishop of Vina
Bishop Paul Consbruch †
Titular Bishop of Gor

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joachim Wanke † (1980)
Bishop of Erfurt
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 Manfred Grothe (2004)
Bishop Matthias König (2004)
Bishop Franz Jung (2018)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 52558012
WikiData: Q45348

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 19 Dec 2007
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 168, Number 14,247

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