Bishop Joseph Bernard Louis Willigers, M.H.M. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Jinja

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Oct 1930		Born	Gronsveld, Netherlands
5 May 1954	23.5	Professed	Member of St. Joseph’s Missionary Society of Mill Hill
10 Jul 1955	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of St. Joseph’s Missionary Society of Mill Hill
13 Jul 1967	36.7	Appointed	Bishop of Jinja, Uganda
3 Dec 1967	37.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Jinja, Uganda
2 Mar 2010	79.4	Retired	Bishop of Jinja, Uganda
30 Sep 2012	81.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Jinja, Uganda

Ad Limina - March 2010: Bishop

a priest for 57.2 years
a bishop for 44.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bernard William Cardinal Griffin †
Principal Consecrator:
Emmanuel Kiwanuka Cardinal Nsubuga †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Joannes de Reeper, M.H.M. †
Archbishop James Odongo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joseph Bernard Louis Willigers, M.H.M. † (1967)
Emmanuel Kiwanuka Cardinal Nsubuga † (1966)
Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa † (1952)
Archbishop David Mathew † (1938)
Arthur Cardinal Hinsley † (1926)
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard † (1872)
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Joseph Mukwaya †
Bishop Charles Martin Wamika
Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 2 Mar 2010
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 126

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