Bishop Alphonsus Maria Henricus Antonius Castermans †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Roermond, Netherlands

Titular Bishop of Skálholt

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Apr 1924		Born
10 Mar 1951	26.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Roermond, Netherlands
15 Jan 1982	57.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands
15 Jan 1982	57.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Skálholt
13 Feb 1982	57.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Skálholt
3 May 1997	73.0	Resigned	Auxiliary Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands
21 Apr 2008	84.0	Died	Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Roermond, Netherlands

MicroData Summary
Alphonsus Maria Henricus Antonius Castermans
Bishop Alphonsus Maria Henricus Antonius Castermans
(born 4 Apr 1924, died 21 Apr 2008)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Roermond

Event Place
Birth Place Maastricht
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Roermond, Diocese of Roermond

a priest for 57.1 years
a bishop for 26.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen †
Bishop of Roermond
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Johannes Willem Maria Bluyssen (Bluijssen) †
Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc)
Bishop Adrianus Johannes Simonis †
Bishop of Rotterdam

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen † (1972)
Bishop of Roermond
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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:
Bishop Joannes Gerardus ter Schure, S.D.B. † (1984)
Bishop Franciscus Jozef Maria Wiertz (1993)
Bishop Everardus Johannes de Jong (1999)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q2521593

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 196, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 73, Number 5,849

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