Bishop Wilhelm Weskamm †

Deceased

Bishop of Berlin, Germany

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 May 1891		Born
3 Apr 1914	22.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Paderborn, Germany
12 Oct 1949	58.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany
12 Oct 1949	58.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Rhandus
30 Nov 1949	58.5	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Rhandus
29 May 1951	60.0	Appointed	Bishop of Berlin, Germany
31 Jul 1951	60.2	Installed	Bishop of Berlin, Germany
21 Aug 1956	65.2	Died	Bishop of Berlin, Germany

MicroData Summary for Wilhelm Weskamm (VIAF: 71839179)
Bishop Wilhelm Weskamm (born 13 May 1891, died 21 Aug 1956) Bishop of Berlin

Event Place
Birth Place Helsen Waldeck
Death Place Berlin, Diocese of Berlin
Buried Place (Original) Sankt-Hedwigs, Cathedral, Berlin, Diocese of Berlin

a priest for 42.3 years
a bishop for 6.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Lorenz Jäger (Jaeger) †
Archbishop of Paderborn
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Petrus Legge †
Bishop of Meißen (Meissen)
Bishop Augustinus Philipp Baumann †
Titular Bishop of Casius

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Lorenz Jäger (Jaeger) † (1941)
Archbishop of Paderborn
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Otto Spülbeck, C.O. † (1955)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Friedrich Maria Heinrich Rintelen † (1952)
Bishop Josef Freusberg † (1953)
Franz Cardinal Hengsbach † (1953)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Helsen Waldeck
Death Place	Berlin, Diocese of Berlin
Buried Place (Original)	Sankt-Hedwigs, Cathedral, Berlin, Diocese of Berlin

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1949, Number 106
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 2, Number 58
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 20, Number 1,123, Ascendance

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