Bishop Charles-Marie Himmer †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
10 Apr 1902		Born
15 Aug 1926	24.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Namur {Namen}, Belgium
29 Dec 1948	46.7	Appointed	Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium
24 Feb 1949	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium
2 Jul 1977	75.2	Retired	Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium
11 Jan 1994	91.7	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Tournai {Doornik}, Belgium

MicroData Summary
Charles-Marie Himmer
Bishop Charles-Marie Himmer
(born 10 Apr 1902, died 11 Jan 1994)
Bishop Emeritus of Tournai {Doornik}

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
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 Dinant, Diocese of Namur {Namen}
Ordained Priest Namur, Diocese of Namur {Namen}
Ordained Bishop Notre-Dame, Cathedral, Tournai, Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}
Death Place Notre-Dame de Soleilmont, Abbey, Fleurus, Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}
Buried Place (Original) Tournai, Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}

a priest for 67.4 years
a bishop for 44.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Thomas Louis Heylen, O. Praem. †
Bishop of Namur {Namen}
Principal Consecrator:
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey †
Archbishop of Mechelen
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop André Clément Marie Ghislain Charue †
Bishop of Namur {Namen}
Bishop Henricus Lamiroy †
Bishop of Brugge {Bruges}

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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Pablo Varela Server † (1970)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Jules Lecouvet † (1949)
Bishop Marcel Daubechies, M. Afr. † (1950)
Bishop Albert Louis Descamps † (1960)
Bishop Pierre Samain † (1967)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop André Jacques, C.I.C.M. † (1951)
Bishop Guillaume Marie van Zuylen † (1951)
Bishop Jean-Baptiste Musty † (1957)
Joseph-Léon Cardinal Cardijn † (1965)
Bishop Jean Huard † (1977)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Dinant, Diocese of Namur {Namen}
Ordained Priest	Namur, Diocese of Namur {Namen}
Ordained Bishop	Notre-Dame, Cathedral, Tournai, Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}
Death Place	Notre-Dame de Soleilmont, Abbey, Fleurus, Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}
Buried Place (Original)	Tournai, Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}

External Link(s):

VIAF: 165645512
WikiData: Q2798424

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 141, Necrology (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1949, Number 13
opd/c1/loc: CB, 14 Aug 2024

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