Bishop Willem van Kester, M.H.M. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Basankusu

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Feb 1906		Born	Kwintsheul, Netherlands
25 May 1929	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of St. Joseph’s Missionary Society of Mill Hill
19 Jun 1952	46.4	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Basankusu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
19 Jun 1952	46.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Legia
11 Oct 1952	46.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Legia
10 Nov 1959	53.8	Appointed	Bishop of Basankusu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
18 Nov 1974	68.8	Resigned	Bishop of Basankusu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
7 Apr 1989	83.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Basankusu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

a priest for 59.9 years
a bishop for 36.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Johannes Petrus Huibers †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Willem Pieter Adrian Maria Mutsaerts †
Bishop John Reesinck, M.H.M. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Willem van Kester, M.H.M. † (1952)
Archbishop Johannes Petrus Huibers † (1936)
Paolo Cardinal Giobbe † (1925)
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Joseph Hippolyte Cardinal Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (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 †

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