Bishop Norbert Werbs †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hamburg, Germany

Titular Bishop of Amaura

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 May 1940		Born
1 Jul 1964	24.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Paderborn, Germany
23 Jul 1973	33.1	Incardinated	Priest of Schwerin, Germany
7 Jan 1981	40.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Schwerin, Germany
7 Jan 1981	40.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Amaura
25 Mar 1981	40.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Amaura
20 May 2015	75.0	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Hamburg, Germany
3 Jan 2023	82.6	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hamburg, Germany

MicroData Summary
Norbert Werbs
Bishop Norbert Werbs
(born 20 May 1940, died 3 Jan 2023)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Hamburg

Ad Limina - November 2006: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Rostock-Warnemünde, Archdiocese of Paderborn
Ordained Priest Rostock, Archdiocese of Paderborn
Ordained Bishop Christ, Church, Rostock, Apostolic Administration of Schwerin
Death Place Neubrandenburg, Archdiocese of Hamburg

a priest for 58.5 years
a bishop for 41.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Heinrich Theissing †
Titular Bishop of Mina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Joachim Wanke
Titular Bishop of Castellum in Mauretania
Bishop Theodor Kettmann
Titular Bishop of Busiris

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Heinrich Theissing † (1963)
Titular Bishop of Mina
Archbishop Alfred Bengsch † (1959)
Bishop of Berlin
Julius August Cardinal Döpfner † (1948)
Bishop of Berlin
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Hans-Reinhard Koch † (1985)
Bishop Johannes Wübbe (2013)
Archbishop Stefan Heße (Hesse) (2015)
Bishop Horst Eberlein (2017)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 54789992
WikiData: Q110804

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 20 May 2015
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 67, Number 5,291

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