Ernst Gutting (January 30, 1919 – September 27, 2013) was a German

prelate A prelate () is a high-ranking member of the Christian clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin , the past participle of , which means 'carry before', 'be set above or over' or 'pref ...

of the

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. As of 2013 he was the oldest German Roman Catholic bishop. Gutting was born in

Ludwigshafen Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (; meaning " Ludwig's Port upon Rhine"), is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine, opposite Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the surrounding region, it form ...

, Germany, and was ordained a priest on July 3, 1949. Gutting was appointed auxiliary bishop of the

Diocese of Speyer The Diocese of Speyer (lat. Dioecesis Spirensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. The diocese is located in the South of the Rhineland-Palatinate and comprises also the Saarpfalz Districts of Germany, district in the east of the S ...

, as well as titular bishop of Sufar, on May 31, 1971 and ordained a bishop on September 12, 1971. Gutting retired as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Speyer on February 24, 1994.

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