query: date_of_birth karl-heinz wiesemann
supports: Karl-Heinz Wiesemann (born 1 August 1960) is the 96th Bishop of Speyer. Speyer (older spelling "Speier", known as "Spire" in French and formerly as "Spires" in English) is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located beside the river Rhine, Speyer is south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. Founded by the Romans, it is one of Germany's oldest cities. The first known names were "Noviomagus" and "Civitas Nemetum", after the Teutonic tribe, Nemetes, settled in the area. Around AD 500 the name Spira first appeared in written documents and, as well as the French, this is still reflected in the names "Spira" and "Espira" used in Italian and Spanish. The city's name may be the origin of the Ashkenazi Jewish name, Shapiro, and its variants. Karl - Heinz Wiesemann ( born August 1 , 1960 ) is the 96th Bishop of Speyer . Wiesemann was born in Herford , North Rhine - Westphalia in the archdiocese of Paderborn . He became a chaplain on the 10th of October 1985 in Rome . He later served as a priest in Bösperde , a suburb of Menden and provost of St. Petrus and Andreas in Brilon . In 2002 Pope Pope John Paul II named him Auxiliary bishop , which he was ordained on the 8th of September 2002 in Paderborn cathedral . On the 19th of December 2007 , Pope Benedict XVI named him the successor to bishop Anton Schlembach . He ascended to the office on March 2 , 2008 in the Speyer cathedral . The Bishop of Speyer is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer, which is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Bamberg. The diocese covers an area of 5,893 km². The current bishop is Karl-Heinz Wiesemann.
candidates: 1 1 august 1960 1960 5 50 500
answer: 1 august 1960