Georg Maximilian Cardinal Sterzinsky †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Berlin

Cardinal-Priest of San Giuseppe all’Aurelio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Feb 1936		Born	Warlack
29 Jun 1960	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Erfurt-Meiningen, Germany
28 May 1989	53.3	Appointed	Bishop of Berlin, Germany
9 Sep 1989	53.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Berlin, Germany
28 Jun 1991	55.4	Elevated to Cardinal
28 Jun 1991	55.4	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Giuseppe all’Aurelio
27 Jun 1994	58.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Berlin, Germany
24 Feb 2011	75.0	Retired	Archbishop of Berlin, Germany
30 Jun 2011	75.4	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Berlin, Germany

Consistory - 1991: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 2005: Participated

a priest for 51.0 years
a bishop for 21.8 years
a cardinal for 20.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Josef Freusberg †
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Joachim Wanke
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Johannes Kapp
Bishop Wolfgang Weider

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Georg Maximilian Cardinal Sterzinsky † (1989)
Bishop Joachim Wanke (1980)
Joachim Cardinal Meisner (1975)
Bishop Hugo Aufderbeck † (1962)
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 Josef 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 Galleffi † (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 †

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Konrad Zdarsa
Bishop Matthias Heinrich

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 24 Feb 2011
d: CB, 30 Jun 2011
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 117, Number 10,469
c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 119
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 127
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 208, Necrology (back)

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