James Daniel Niedergeses
{{Short description|American prelate}}
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| honorific_prefix = His Excellency, The Most Reverend
| name = James Daniel Niedergeses
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| title = Bishop of Nashville
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| church = Roman Catholic Church
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| see = Diocese of Nashville
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| term = May 20, 1975 to
October 13, 1992
| predecessor = Joseph Aloysius Durick
| successor = Edward Urban Kmiec
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| ordination = April 8, 1975
| ordained_by = William Lawrence Adrian
| consecration = May 20, 1975
| consecrated_by = Giovanni Cicognani
| birth_date = February 2, 1917
| birth_place = Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, US
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|11|16|1917|02|02}}
| death_place = Nashville, Tennessee, US
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James Daniel Niedergeses (February 2, 1917 – November 16, 2007) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Nashville in Tennessee from 1975 to 1992.
Biography
James Niedergeses born on February 2, 1917, in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Nashville by Bishop William Adrian on May 20, 1944, in Nashville. Niedergeses spent the 11 years in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the majority of his time there as pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish.{{Cite web |url=http://www.dioceseofknoxville.org/?org=23&opg=home |title=Diocese of Knoxville |access-date=2007-11-17 |archive-date=2006-10-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061014173647/http://www.dioceseofknoxville.org/?org=23&opg=home |url-status=dead }}
On April 8, 1975, Pope Paul VI appointed Niedergeses as bishop of the Diocese of Nashville, He was consecrated in Rome by Cardinal Giovanni Cicognani on May 20, 1975.
Pope John Paul II accepted Niedergeses' resignation as bishop of the Diocese of Nashville on October 13, 1992.[http://catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bniedjd.html Bishop James Daniel Niedergeses [Catholic-Hierarchy]] James Niedergeses died on November 16, 2007, at age 90 at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville{{Cite web |url=http://www.saintthomas.org/ |title=welcome to Saint Thomas Hospital |access-date=2020-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071107111113/http://www.saintthomas.org/ |archive-date=2007-11-07 |url-status=dead }}[http://www.dioceseofnashville.com/article_nied-obit.htm Bishop Niedergeses, 'a model person,' dies at 90]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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Episcopal succession
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title=Bishop of Nashville |
before=Joseph Aloysius Durick |
after=Edward Urban Kmiec |
years=1975–1992 |}}
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Category:People from Chattanooga, Tennessee
Category:People from Lawrenceburg, Tennessee
Category:Roman Catholic bishops of Nashville
Category:20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States
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