Joannes Baptista Sproll
Bishop of Rottenburg driven out of his diocese by the Nazis in 1938
Who they were
Bishop of Rottenburg, expelled from his diocese by the Nazi authorities in 1938 and known since as the Bekennerbischof, the confessor bishop.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
His own diocese reports that a beatification process for him is under way; the diocesan inquiry opened on 9 May 2011.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.