Bishop Bernhard Rieger, P. Schönstatt †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany

Titular Bishop of Tigava

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Dec 1922		Born
29 Jul 1951	28.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Rottenburg, Germany
20 Dec 1984	62.0	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
20 Dec 1984	62.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Tigava
2 Feb 1985	62.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Tigava
31 Jul 1996	73.6	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany
10 Apr 2013	90.3	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany

MicroData Summary for Bernhard Rieger
(VIAF: 171723067; WikiData: Q87314)
Bishop Bernhard Rieger P. Schönstatt (born 17 Dec 1922, died 10 Apr 2013) Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

Event Place
Birth Place Wißgoldingen
Ordained Bishop Rottenburg, Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

a priest for 61.6 years
a bishop for 28.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Georg Moser †
Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Anton Herre †
Titular Bishop of Calatia
Bishop Franz Josef Kuhnle †
Titular Bishop of Sorres

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Georg Moser † (1970)
Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Bishop Carl Joseph Leiprecht † (1948)
Bishop of Rottenburg
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Carlos Stetter (1988)
Bishop Johannes Kreidler (1991)
Bishop Thomas Maria Renz (1997)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Wißgoldingen
Ordained Bishop	Rottenburg, Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart

Source(s):

d: CB, 11 Apr 2013
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 216, Necrology (back)
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 90, Number 7,639
c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 91, Additions/Corrections (front)

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