Bishop Wolfgang Kirchgässner †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Titular Bishop of Druas

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Jun 1928		Born
30 May 1954	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
29 Nov 1979	51.4	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
29 Nov 1979	51.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Druas
10 Feb 1980	51.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Druas
31 Dec 1998	70.5	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
26 Mar 2014	85.8	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

MicroData Summary for Wolfgang Kirchgässner
(VIAF: 171639239; WikiData: Q89785)
Bishop Wolfgang Kirchgässner (born 1 Jun 1928, died 26 Mar 2014) Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Freiburg im Breisgau

Event Place
Birth Place Mannheim
Ordained Bishop Assomption, Cathedral, Freiburg im Breisgau, Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau

a priest for 59.8 years
a bishop for 34.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Oskar Saier †
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Karl Gnädinger †
Titular Bishop of Celerina
Bishop Anton Herre †
Titular Bishop of Calatia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Oskar Saier † (1972)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Archbishop Hermann Josef Schäufele † (1955)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Archbishop Eugen Viktor Paul Seiterich † (1952)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
Archbishop Wendelin Rauch † (1948)
Archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau
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

Event	Place
Birth Place	Mannheim
Ordained Bishop	Assomption, Cathedral, Freiburg im Breisgau, Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 221, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 60, Number 4,556

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