Bishop Wilhelm Kempf †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Limburg, Germany

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Aug 1906		Born
8 Dec 1932	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Limburg, Germany
3 May 1949	42.7	Selected	Bishop of Limburg, Germany
28 May 1949	42.7	Confirmed	Bishop of Limburg, Germany
25 Jul 1949	42.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Limburg, Germany
10 Aug 1981	75.0	Retired	Bishop of Limburg, Germany
9 Oct 1982	76.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Limburg, Germany

MicroData Summary for Wilhelm Kempf
(VIAF: 52481484; WikiData: Q2573592)
Bishop Wilhelm Kempf (born 10 Aug 1906, died 9 Oct 1982) Bishop Emeritus of Limburg

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Wiesbaden

a priest for 49.8 years
a bishop for 33.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Josef Cardinal Frings †
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Aloisius Joseph Muench †
Bishop of Fargo, North Dakota
Bishop Albert Stohr †
Bishop of Mainz

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop John Jobst, S.A.C. † (1950)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Gerhard Pieschl (1977)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Walter Gunther Kampe † (1952)
Bishop Joseph Maria Reuß (Reuss) † (1954)
Bishop Eduard Schick † (1962)
Bishop Adolf Kindermann † (1966)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Wiesbaden

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1949, Number 58

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