Georg Moser (10 June 1923 – 9 May 1988) was a German Catholic Bishop. He was the
Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
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, '' Bu ...
.
Moser was born in
Leutkirch in the
Allgäu
The Allgäu (Standard German: , also Allgovia) is a region in Swabia in southern Germany. It covers the south of Bavarian Swabia, southeastern Baden-Württemberg, and parts of Austria. The region stretches from the pre-alpine lands up to the A ...
. After studying theology at the
University of Tübingen
The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Wü ...
from 1942 to 1947, he entered the priesthood in 1948. Moser earned his doctorate at the same university in 1962. On 14 November 1970 he was consecrated bishop 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 ...
, and on 25 February 1975 he became
Bishop of Rottenburg (in 1978 the diocese was renamed ''Rottenburg-Stuttgart''). Moser died in Stuttgart at the age of 65 after a long, difficult illness.
1923 births
1988 deaths
Roman Catholic bishops of Rottenburg
20th-century German Roman Catholic bishops
People from Leutkirch im Allgäu
University of Tübingen alumni
20th-century German Roman Catholic priests
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