Bishop Josef Homeyer †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Hildesheim, Germany

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Aug 1929		Born
11 Feb 1958	28.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Münster, Germany
25 Aug 1983	54.0	Appointed	Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany
13 Nov 1983	54.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany
20 Aug 2004	75.0	Retired	Bishop of Hildesheim, Germany
30 Mar 2010	80.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Hildesheim, Germany

MicroData Summary
Josef Homeyer
Bishop Josef Homeyer
(born 1 Aug 1929, died 30 Mar 2010)
Bishop Emeritus of Hildesheim

Event Place
Birth Place Harsewinkel, Diocese of Münster
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Hildesheim, Diocese of Hildesheim

a priest for 52.1 years
a bishop for 26.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Michael Keller †
Bishop of Münster
Principal Consecrator:
Joseph Cardinal Höffner †
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen †
Bishop of Hildesheim
Bishop Heinrich Machens †
Titular Bishop of Bida
Archbishop Johannes Joachim Degenhardt †
Archbishop of Paderborn
Bishop Heinrich Pachowiak †
Titular Bishop of Phytea

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Joseph Cardinal Höffner † (1962)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Bishop Matthias Wehr † (1951)
Bishop of Trier
Archbishop Aloisius Joseph Muench † (1935)
Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani † (1933)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Hans-Georg Koitz (1992)
Bishop Nikolaus Schwerdtfeger (1995)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/50066
VIAF: 85063019
WikiData: Q85615

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 105, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 84, Number 6,986

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