Bishop Franz Kamphaus

Bishop Emeritus of Limburg

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Feb 1932		Born	Lüdinghausen
21 Feb 1959	27.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Münster, Germany
3 May 1982	50.3	Appointed	Bishop of Limburg, Germany
13 Jun 1982	50.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Limburg, Germany
2 Feb 2007	75.0	Retired	Bishop of Limburg, Germany

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Limburg.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Michael Keller †
Principal Consecrator:
Joseph Cardinal Höffner †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Reinhard Lettmann
Bishop Pierre-Marie Coty

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Franz Kamphaus (1982)
Joseph Cardinal Höffner † (1962)
Bishop Matthias Wehr † (1951)
Aloysius Joseph Cardinal Muench † (1935)
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Thomas Löhr

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 2 Feb 2007
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 105

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