Abbot Eberhard (Hermann) Spiess, O.S.B. †

Deceased

Abbot Emeritus of Songea

Titular Bishop of Cemerinianus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 May 1902		Born	Ertingen, Germany
2 Jun 1925	23.1	Professed	Member of Order of Saint Benedict
9 Mar 1930	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict
23 Sep 1953	51.4	Appointed	Abbot of Peramiho, Tanzania
23 Sep 1953	51.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Cemerinianus
3 Dec 1953	51.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Cemerinianus
6 Feb 1969	66.8	Resigned	Abbot of Songea, Tanzania
17 Sep 1990	88.4	Died	Abbot Emeritus of Songea, Tanzania

a priest for 60.5 years
a bishop for 36.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
James Robert Cardinal Knox †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Gallus (Bernhard) Steiger, O.S.B. †
Abbot Anthony Victor Haelg (Hälg), O.S.B. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Abbot Eberhard (Hermann) Spiess, O.S.B. † (1953)
James Robert Cardinal Knox † (1953)
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (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:
Archbishop James Joseph Komba †
Bishop Maurus Gervase Komba †
Bishop Raymond Mwanyika

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