Archbishop Werner Thissen

Archbishop of Hamburg

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Dec 1938		Born	Kleve
29 Jun 1966	27.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Münster, Germany
16 Apr 1999	60.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany
16 Apr 1999	60.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Scampa
24 May 1999	60.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Scampa
22 Nov 2002	64.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Hamburg, Germany
25 Jan 2003	64.1	Installed	Archbishop of Hamburg, Germany

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Hamburg.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Reinhard Lettmann
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alfons Demming
Bishop Heinrich Janssen

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Werner Thissen (1999)
Bishop Reinhard Lettmann (1973)
Bishop Heinrich Tenhumberg † (1958)
Bishop Michael Keller † (1947)
Josef Cardinal Frings † (1942)
Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo † (1922)
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Joseph Hippolyte Cardinal Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
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:
Bishop Heinrich Timmerevers
Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst

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