Bishop Wilhelmus Marinus Bekkers †

Deceased

Bishop of ’s Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 Apr 1908		Born	S. Oedenrode
10 Jun 1933	25.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of ’s Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands
19 Dec 1956	48.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of ’s Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands
19 Dec 1956	48.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Thasus
12 Feb 1957	48.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Thasus
27 Jun 1960	52.2	Succeeded	Bishop of ’s Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands
9 May 1966	58.1	Died	Bishop of ’s Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands

a priest for 32.9 years
a bishop for 9.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Willem Pieter Adrian Maria Mutsaerts †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Joseph Wilhelmus Maria Baeten †
Archbishop Johannes Petrus Huibers †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Wilhelmus Marinus Bekkers † (1957)
Archbishop Willem Pieter Adrian Maria Mutsaerts † (1942)
Johannes Cardinal de Jong † (1935)
Bishop Pieter Adriaan Willem Hopmans † (1914)
Archbishop Hendrik van de Wetering † (1895)
Bishop Gaspard Josephus Bottemanne † (1883)
Archbishop Pieter Mathijs Snickers † (1877)
Archbishop Andreas Ignatius Schaepman † (1860)
Bishop Franciscus Jacobus van Vree † (1853)
Archbishop Johannes Zwijsen (Zwysen) † (1842)
Bishop Cornelius Ludovicus van Wijkerslooth (Wykerslooth) † (1833)
Bishop Kaspar Max Freiherr Droste zu Vischering † (1795)
Archbishop Max Franz (Maximilian Franciscus) von Habsburg-Lothringen (Österreich) † (1785)
Archbishop Klemens Wenzeslaus Herzog von Sachsen † (1766)
Bishop Joseph Ignaz Philipp Landgraf von Hessen-Darmstadt † (1741)
Bishop Johann Jakob von Mayr † (1719)
Bishop Alexander Sigmund Pfalzgraf am Rhein zu Neuburg † (1691)
Bishop Marquard Rudolf Reichsritter von Rodt † (1690)
Bishop Johannes Wolfgang Reichsfreiherr von Bodman †

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Johannes Willem Maria Bluijssen
Bishop Joannes de Reeper, M.H.M. †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Frans Janssen, C.M. †
Bishop Estanislau Arnoldo Van Melis, C.P. †
Bishop Hendrik Theodorus Edmund Beel †

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