Bishop John Willem Nicolaysen Gran, O.C.S.O. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Oslo, Norway

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Apr 1920		Born
21 May 1957	37.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance
27 Dec 1962	42.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Oslo, Norway
27 Dec 1962	42.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Raphia
24 Mar 1963	42.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Raphia
25 Nov 1964	44.6	Succeeded	Bishop of Oslo, Norway
26 Nov 1983	63.6	Resigned	Bishop of Oslo, Norway
20 Mar 2008	87.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Oslo, Norway

MicroData Summary
John Willem Nicolaysen Gran
Bishop John Willem Nicolaysen Gran O.C.S.O.
(born 5 Apr 1920, died 20 Mar 2008)
Bishop Emeritus of Oslo

Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Bergen, Diocese of Oslo
Ordained Bishop Saint Olaf, Cathedral, Oslo, Diocese of Oslo
Death Place Paris, Archdiocese of Paris, France

a priest for 50.8 years
a bishop for 44.9 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Johannes Theodor Suhr, O.S.B. †
Bishop of København {Copenhagen}
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Jacques Mangers, S.M. †
Bishop of Oslo
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Johannes Theodor Suhr, O.S.B. †
Bishop of København {Copenhagen}
Bishop Johann Wember, M.S.F. †
Titular Bishop of Vasada

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Jacques Mangers, S.M. † (1932)
Bishop of Oslo
Bishop Pierre Nommesch † (1920)
Bishop of Luxembourg
Archbishop Sebastiano Nicotra † (1917)
Titular Archbishop of Heraclea in Europa
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 Priest:
Bishop Bernt Ivar (Markus) Eidsvig, C.R.S.A. (1982)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Gerhard Schwenzer, SS.CC. (1975)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Hans Ludvig Martensen, S.J. † (1965)
Bishop Bernt Ivar (Markus) Eidsvig, C.R.S.A. (2005)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 12406749
WikiData: Q264732

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1963, Number 24
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 196, Necrology (back)
loc: CB, 17 Sep 2019

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