Bishop Dominicus (Michael) Meier, O.S.B.

Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Jul 1959		Born
9 Sep 1983	24.1	Professed	Member of Order of Saint Benedict
28 Sep 1986	27.2	Solemn Vows	Member of Order of Saint Benedict
24 Jan 1988	28.5	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Order of Saint Benedict
14 Jan 1989	29.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Saint Benedict
15 Jul 2015	56.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn, Germany
15 Jul 2015	56.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Castro di Sardegna
27 Sep 2015	56.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Castro di Sardegna
28 May 2024	64.8	Appointed	Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany
8 Sep 2024	65.1	Installed	Bishop of Osnabrück, Germany

MicroData Summary for Dominicus (Michael) Meier
(VIAF: 56793745; WikiData: Q1237715)
Bishop Dominicus (Michael) Meier O.S.B. (born 10 Jul 1959) Bishop of Osnabrück

Event Place
Birth Place Finnentrop-Heggen, Archdiocese of Paderborn
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Paderborn, Archdiocese of Paderborn

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Osnabrück.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Reinhard Lettmann †
Bishop of Münster
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker
Archbishop of Paderborn
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Manfred Grothe
Titular Bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus
Bishop Matthias König
Titular Bishop of Elicroca

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker (2000)
Archbishop of Paderborn
Archbishop Johannes Joachim Degenhardt † (1968)
Archbishop of Paderborn
Lorenz Cardinal 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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Josef Holtkotte (2021)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Finnentrop-Heggen, Archdiocese of Paderborn
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Paderborn, Archdiocese of Paderborn

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 15 Jul 2015
ob/c12/prof/bp: CB, 15 Jul 2015
c34: CB, 23 Sep 2015
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 224, Number 18,581
b: Biographia Benedictina, 17 Sep 2021
ab: Bollettino, 28 May 2024

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