Bishop Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Reykjavik, Iceland

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Oct 1932		Born
6 Apr 1957	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
20 Jan 1972	39.2	Appointed	Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands
13 Feb 1972	39.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands
23 Jan 1993	60.2	Resigned	Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands
3 Apr 1993	60.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Traiectum ad Mosam
12 Oct 1995	63.0	Appointed	Apostolic Administrator of Reykjavik, Iceland
24 May 1996	63.6	Appointed	Bishop of Reykjavik, Iceland
30 Oct 2007	75.0	Retired	Bishop of Reykjavik, Iceland
24 Jun 2013	80.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Reykjavik, Iceland

MicroData Summary
Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen
Bishop Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen
(born 7 Oct 1932, died 24 Jun 2013)
Bishop Emeritus of Reykjavik

Event Place
Birth Place Oeffelt
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Sittard, Diocese of Roermond, Netherlands

a priest for 56.2 years
a bishop for 41.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bernardus Johannes Cardinal Alfrink †
Archbishop of Utrecht
William John Cardinal Conway †
Archbishop of Armagh

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

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

Ordained Deacon:
Willem Jacobus Cardinal Eijk (1984)
Ordained Priest:
Bishop Everardus Johannes de Jong (1983)
Willem Jacobus Cardinal Eijk (1985)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Alphonsus Maria Henricus Antonius Castermans † (1982)
Bishop Joannes Gerardus ter Schure, S.D.B. † (1984)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Oeffelt
Ordained Bishop	San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Sittard, Diocese of Roermond, Netherlands

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/27485
VIAF: 56603172
WikiData: Q1283384

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 30 Oct 2007
ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 137
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 216, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 17, Number 904

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