Bishop Gerhard Schaffran †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Dresden-Meissen

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Jul 1912		Born	Leschnitz
1 Aug 1937	25.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland
24 Nov 1962	50.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Görlitz, Germany
24 Nov 1962	50.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Semnea
22 Jan 1963	50.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Semnea
12 Sep 1970	58.2	Appointed	Bishop of Meissen (Meißen), Germany
23 Sep 1970	58.2	Installed	Bishop of Meissen (Meißen), Germany
1 Aug 1987	75.1	Retired	Bishop of Dresden-Meissen, Germany
4 Mar 1996	83.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Dresden-Meissen, Germany

a priest for 58.6 years
a bishop for 33.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Adolf Cardinal Bertram †
Principal Consecrator:
Alfred Cardinal Bengsch †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Friedrich Maria Rintelen †
Bishop Hugo Aufderbeck †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Gerhard Schaffran † (1963)
Alfred Cardinal Bengsch † (1959)
Julius August Cardinal Döpfner † (1948)
Archbishop Joseph Otto Kolb † (1935)
Archbishop Johann Jakob von Hauck † (1912)
Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör † (1898)
Archbishop Joseph von Schork † (1891)
Archbishop Franz Joseph von Stein † (1879)
Archbishop Friedrich von Schreiber † (1875)
Archbishop Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr, O.S.B. † (1856)
Antonio Saverio Cardinal De Luca † (1845)
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galeffi † (1819)
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
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 †

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Konrad Zdarsa
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Bernhard Huhn †
Bishop Georg Weinhold
Bishop Joachim Friedrich Reinelt
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Heinrich Theissing †
Bishop Hans-Georg (Johannes) Braun †
Bishop Johannes Kleineidam †

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