Rudolf Schmid (26 June 1914 – 24 June 2012) was a
German
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prelate of the
Roman Catholic Church.
Schmid was born in
Schiers, Switzerland in 1914 and was ordained a priest on 26 June 1938, his 24th birthday, with the
Augsburg Diocese. He was
chaplain
A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a Minister (Christianity), minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a laity, lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secularity, secular institution (such as a hosp ...
in
Murnau until 1945. Then he was chaplain in Augsburg, together with
Josef Stimpfle, who was Bishop of Augsburg since 1963. He was appointed
Auxiliary Bishop of the
Augsburg Diocese on 3 January 1972; he was ordained on 25 March 1972
titular bishop of Dionysiana. Schmid retired from his position of
auxiliary bishop of
Augsburg on 11 July 1990 because of his age.
Schmid died on 24 June 2012, two days short of his 98th birthday.
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Rudolf Schmid's obituary
20th-century German Roman Catholic bishops
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Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1914 births
2012 deaths
20th-century German Roman Catholic priests
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