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Seniority by Bishop Ordination

Ordained Bishop	Years	Name	Current Title
Most Senior
19 Mar 1959		Bishop John Jobst, S.A.C.	Bishop Emeritus of Broome, Australia
11 Jun 1968		Bishop Alfred Kleinermeilert	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Trier
29 Jun 1968		Friedrich Cardinal Wetter	Archbishop Emeritus of München und Freising {Munich}
14 Dec 1969		Bishop Hubert Luthe	Bishop Emeritus of Essen
11 Apr 1970		Bishop Ernst Franz Gerd Werner Dicke	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Aachen
12 Sep 1971		Bishop Ernst Gutting	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Speyer
25 Mar 1972		Bishop Manfred Müller	Bishop Emeritus of Regensburg
11 May 1972		Bishop Erwin Hecht, O.M.I.	Bishop Emeritus of Kimberley, South Africa
24 Feb 1973		Archbishop Ludwig Averkamp	Archbishop Emeritus of Hamburg
24 Feb 1973		Bishop Max Georg von Twickel	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Münster
8 Sep 1973		Bishop Georg Weinhold	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Dresden-Meißen (Meissen)
9 Mar 1975		Bishop Paul-Werner Scheele	Bishop Emeritus of Würzburg
Most Junior
26 Jan 2013		Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer	Bishop of Regensburg
6 Jan 2013		Archbishop Georg Gänswein	Prefect of the Prefecture of the Papal Household, Roman Curia
28 Jul 2012		Bishop Florian Wörner	Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg
25 Mar 2012		Bishop Dominik Schwaderlapp	Auxiliary Bishop of Köln {Cologne}
28 Aug 2011		Bishop Wolfgang Ipolt	Bishop of Görlitz
5 Jun 2011		Bishop Helmut Dieser	Auxiliary Bishop of Trier
26 Feb 2011		Bishop Heinz-Günter Bongartz	Auxiliary Bishop of Hildesheim
13 Feb 2011		Bishop Stefan Zekorn	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster
13 Nov 2010		Walter Cardinal Brandmüller	President Emeritus of the Roman Curia - Other
29 Aug 2010		Bishop Wilfried Theising	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster
29 Aug 2010		Bishop Christoph Hegge	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster
29 Aug 2010		Bishop Dieter Geerlings	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster

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