Bishop Joseph-Pierre-Albert Wittebols, S.C.I. †

Deceased

Bishop of Wamba, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Apr 1912		Born
11 Jul 1937	25.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart
10 Mar 1949	36.9	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Wamba, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
10 Mar 1949	36.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Callipolis
16 Jun 1949	37.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Callipolis
10 Nov 1959	47.5	Appointed	Bishop of Wamba, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
26 Nov 1964	52.6	Died	Bishop of Wamba, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

MicroData Summary for Joseph-Pierre-Albert Wittebols
(VIAF: 53787952; WikiData: Q2750965)
Bishop Joseph-Pierre-Albert Wittebols S.C.I. (born 12 Apr 1912, died 26 Nov 1964) Bishop of Wamba

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Etterbeck, Belgium
Ordained Bishop Sacred Heart Chapel, St. Quentin, Brussels, Archdiocese of Mechelen, Belgium
Death Place Wamba, Diocese of Wamba

a priest for 27.3 years
a bishop for 15.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey †
Archbishop of Mechelen
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Willem Petrus Bartholomaeus Cobben, S.C.I. †
Titular Bishop of Amathus in Palaestina
Bishop Franz Wolfgang Demont, S.C.I. †
Titular Bishop of Usinaza

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Clemente Micara † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Nicolas Kinsch, S.C.I. † (1958)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Etterbeck, Belgium
Ordained Bishop	Sacred Heart Chapel, St. Quentin, Brussels, Archdiocese of Mechelen, Belgium
Death Place	Wamba, Diocese of Wamba

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1949, Number 42
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 9, Number 447
c34: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 10, Additions/Corrections (front)

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