Archbishop Hermann Wilhelm Berning †

Deceased

Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Mar 1877		Born
10 Mar 1900	22.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Osnabrück, Germany
14 Jul 1914	37.3	Appointed	Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany
15 Sep 1914	37.4	Appointed	Pro-Vicar Apostolic of North German Missions {Germania Settentrionale}
15 Sep 1914	37.4	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Schlewig-Holstein, Germany
29 Sep 1914	37.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany
22 Nov 1921	44.6	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of North German Missions {Germania Settentrionale}
22 Nov 1921	44.6	Appointed	Prefect of Schlewig-Holstein, Germany
13 Aug 1930	53.3	Resigned	Vicar Apostolic of North German Missions {Germania Settentrionale}
13 Aug 1930	53.3	Resigned	Prefect of Schlewig-Holstein, Germany
10 Mar 1950	72.9	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Osnabrück, Germany
23 Nov 1955	78.6	Died	Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany

MicroData Summary
Hermann Wilhelm Berning
Archbishop Hermann Wilhelm Berning
(born 26 Mar 1877, died 23 Nov 1955)
Bishop of Osnabrück

Event Place
Birth Place Lingen

a priest for 55.7 years
a bishop for 41.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Adolf Bertram †
Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Johannes Poggenburg †
Bishop of Münster
Bishop Theodor Kappenberg †
Titular Bishop of Sozopolis in Haemimonto

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Adolf Bertram † (1906)
Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau)
Georg Cardinal von Kopp † (1881)
Bishop of Wrocław (Breslau)
Bishop Daniel Wilhelm Sommerwerk (Jacobi) † (1871)
Bishop of Hildesheim
Bishop Johannes Heinrich Beckmann † (1866)
Bishop of Osnabrück
Archbishop Paul Ludolf Melchers, S.J. † (1858)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Bishop Eduard Jakob Wedekin † (1850)
Bishop of Hildesheim
Johannes Cardinal von Geissel † (1837)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Joseph Maria Johann Nepomuk von Fraunberg † (1821)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Francesco Serra Cassano † (1818)
Titular Archbishop of Nicaea
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Johannes Albert von Rudloff † (1950)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Ernst † (1915)
Archbishop Kaspar Klein † (1920)
Bl. Clemens August Cardinal von Galen † (1933)
Bishop Josef Lörks, S.V.D. † (1933)
Archbishop Joseph Godehard Machens † (1934)
Bishop Michael Keller † (1947)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Lingen

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/204078
VIAF: 39349957
WikiData: Q103501

Source(s):

b: Die Bischöfe des Heiligen Römischen Reiches
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1914, Number 50

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