Bishop Gerard Vesters, M.S.C. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Rabaul

Titular Bishop of Diocletianopolis in Palaestina

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Aug 1876		Born	Vucht, Netherlands
28 Oct 1903	27.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Dec 1919³	43.3	Appointed	Prefect of Celebes, Indonesia
16 Feb 1923	46.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Diocletianopolis in Palaestina
16 Feb 1923	46.5	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of New Pomerania, Papua New Guinea
5 Aug 1923	46.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Diocletianopolis in Palaestina
14 Nov 1926	50.2	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
1939²	62.3	Resigned	Vicar Apostolic of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
30 Aug 1954	78.0	Died	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain ; ³ Day Uncertain

a priest for 50.8 years
a bishop for 31.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
- Archbishop Bartolomeo Cattaneo †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
- Archbishop Louis Couppé, M.S.C. †
- Bishop Franz Wolf, S.V.D. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Gerard Vesters, M.S.C. † (1923)
Archbishop Bartolomeo Cattaneo † (1917)
Domenico Cardinal Serafini, O.S.B. † (1900)
Serafino Cardinal Vannutelli † (1869)
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 †

Principal Consecrator of:
- Bishop Leo Isidore Scharmach, M.S.C. †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
- Bishop Otto Raible, S.A.C. †
- Bishop Franz Wolfgang Demont, S.C.I. †
- Bishop André Sorin, M.S.C. †
- Bishop John Patrick O’Loughlin, M.S.C. †

Source(s):

b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1923, Number 43

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