Karl Joseph Leiprecht (11 September 1903 – 29 October 1981) was the
Bishop of Rottenburg
The Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. It is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg, '' B ...
.
Born in the town of Hauerz (now
Bad Wurzach
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) in the
Allgäu
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, Leiprecht studied philosophy and theology at the
University of Tübingen
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from 1923 to 1927. On 24 March 1928 he was ordained a priest by Bishop
Johannes Baptista Sproll at
Rottenburg Cathedral
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. Over the next five years, he served as a vicar at Holy Cross Minster in
Schwäbisch Gmünd
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and at St. George's Church in
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
.
Leiprecht served as the city priest of
Rottweil
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Located between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alps, Rottweil has nearly 25,000 in ...
from 1942 to 1947 before becoming
vicar capitular :''See: Catholic Church hierarchy#Equivalents of diocesan bishops in law''
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The college of consultors elects an admini ...
at
Rottenburg Cathedral.
On 7 October 1948 he was named
Titular Bishop
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By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of
Scyrus
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and
Auxiliary Bishop of Rottenburg; he was consecrated bishop on November 30 by Archbishop
Wendelin Rauch at Rottenburg Cathedral. The next year, Leiprecht was elected the Bishop of Rottenburg on 21 June,
Pius XII
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officially named him to the post on 4 July and he was enthroned on 8 September. He resigned from the office of bishop on 4 June 1974 and died in 1981 in
Ravensburg
Ravensburg ( Swabian: ''Raveschburg'') is a city in Upper Swabia in Southern Germany, capital of the district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg.
Ravensburg was first mentioned in 1088. In the Middle Ages, it was an Imperial Free City and an impo ...
.
Genealogy Information about the "Leiprecht" Family : http://www.leiprecht.de/
1903 births
1981 deaths
People from Ravensburg (district)
People from the Kingdom of Württemberg
Roman Catholic bishops of Rottenburg
20th-century German Roman Catholic bishops
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
20th-century German Roman Catholic priests
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