Bishop Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger

Auxiliary Bishop of Hildesheim

Titular Bishop of Fussala

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Oct 1948		Born	Haar
5 Jun 1982	33.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Hildesheim, Germany
19 Jun 1995	46.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany
19 Jun 1995	46.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Fussala
23 Sep 1995	47.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Fussala

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Hildesheim.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen †
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Josef Homeyer †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Karl Cardinal Lehmann
Bishop Hans-Georg Koitz

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger (1995)
Bishop Josef Homeyer † (1983)
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 Heinz-Günter Bongartz

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 143, Number 12,612

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