Bishop Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen

Bishop Emeritus of Reykjavik

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Oct 1932		Born	Oeffelt
6 Apr 1957	24.5	Ordained Priest	Priest
20 Jan 1972	39.3	Appointed	Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands
13 Feb 1972	39.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands
23 Jan 1993	60.3	Resigned	Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands
3 Apr 1993	60.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Traiectum ad Mosam
24 May 1996	63.6	Appointed	Bishop of Reykjavik, Iceland
30 Oct 2007	75.1	Retired	Bishop of Reykjavik, Iceland

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Reykjavik.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink †
William John Cardinal Conway †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen (1972)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Everardus Johannes de Jong
Willem Jacobus Cardinal Eijk
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Alphonsus Maria Henricus Antonius Castermans †
Bishop Joannes Gerardus ter Schure, S.D.B. †

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 30 Oct 2007
ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 137

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