Archbishop Josef Stimpfle †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Augsburg, Germany

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Mar 1916		Born
28 Jul 1946	30.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Augsburg, Germany
10 Sep 1963	47.4	Appointed	Bishop of Augsburg, Germany
26 Oct 1963	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Augsburg, Germany
30 Mar 1992	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Augsburg, Germany
30 Mar 1992	76.0	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title)
12 Sep 1996	80.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Augsburg, Germany

MicroData Summary
Josef Stimpfle
Archbishop Josef Stimpfle
(born 25 Mar 1916, died 12 Sep 1996)
Bishop Emeritus of Augsburg

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 Maihingen, Diocese of Augsburg
Ordained Bishop Assomption, Cathedral, Augsburg, Diocese of Augsburg
Death Place Augsburg, Diocese of Augsburg

a priest for 50.1 years
a bishop for 32.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Julius August Cardinal Döpfner †
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Rudolf Graber †
Bishop of Regensburg
Bishop Joseph Zimmermann †
Titular Bishop of Cerynia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Julius August Cardinal Döpfner † (1948)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Archbishop Joseph Otto Kolb † (1935)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Johann Jakob von Hauck † (1912)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Ferdinand von Schlör † (1898)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Joseph von Schork † (1891)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Bishop Franz Joseph von Stein † (1879)
Bishop of Würzburg
Archbishop Friedrich Josef von Schreiber † (1875)
Archbishop of Bamberg
Archbishop Gregor (Leonhard Andreas) von Scherr, O.S.B. † (1856)
Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}
Archbishop Antonio Saverio De Luca † (1845)
Titular Archbishop of Tarsus
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Ludwig Schwarz, S.D.B. (1964)
Bishop Jan Blaha † (1967)
Bishop Walter Mixa (1970)
Bishop Anton Losinger (1983)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Manfred Müller † (1972)
Bishop Rudolf Schmid † (1972)
Bishop Maximilian Ziegelbauer † (1983)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Karl Borromäus Flügel † (1968)
Bishop Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck † (1972)
Bishop Heinrich von Soden-Fraunhofen † (1972)
Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala (1981)
Archbishop Karl Heinrich Braun (1984)
Bishop Viktor Josef Dammertz, O.S.B. † (1993)
Bishop Josef Grünwald (1995)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/96594
VIAF: 101871651
WikiData: Q85635

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1963, Number 114
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 148, Necrology (back)

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