Bishop Alfons Demming †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Münster, Germany

Titular Bishop of Gordus

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Feb 1928		Born
21 Dec 1953	25.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Münster, Germany
6 Nov 1976	48.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany
6 Nov 1976	48.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gordus
9 Jan 1977	48.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Gordus
30 Apr 1998	70.1	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, Germany
31 Oct 2012	84.6	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Münster, Germany

MicroData Summary
Alfons Demming
Bishop Alfons Demming
(born 29 Feb 1928, died 31 Oct 2012)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Münster

Event Place
Birth Place Südlohn
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Münster, Diocese of Münster

a priest for 58.8 years
a bishop for 35.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Heinrich Tenhumberg †
Bishop of Münster
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Laurenz Böggering †
Titular Bishop of Mathara in Numidia
Bishop Max Georg von Twickel †
Titular Bishop of Lugura

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Heinrich Tenhumberg † (1958)
Bishop of Münster
Bishop Michael Keller † (1947)
Bishop of Münster
Josef Cardinal Frings † (1942)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo † (1922)
Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Libya
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Friedrich Ostermann † (1981)
Archbishop Werner Thissen † (1999)
Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst (2004)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q71531

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 212, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 39, Number 2,444

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