Bishop Vilhelms Toms Marija Lapelis, O.P.

Bishop Emeritus of Liepāja, Latvia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Dec 1961		Born
1 Jun 1986	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Preachers
25 Jan 2000	38.0	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Liepāja, Latvia
25 Mar 2000	38.2	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Liepāja, Latvia
12 May 2001	39.3	Succeeded	Bishop of Liepāja, Latvia
20 Jun 2012	50.4	Resigned	Bishop of Liepāja, Latvia

MicroData Summary
Vilhelms Toms Marija Lapelis
Bishop Vilhelms Toms Marija Lapelis O.P.
(born 30 Dec 1961)
Bishop Emeritus of Liepāja

Ad Limina - June 2006: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Daugavpils

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Liepāja.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Julijans Cardinal Vaivods †
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Erwin Josef Ender †
Titular Archbishop of Germania in Numidia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Ārvaldis Andrejs Brumanis †
Bishop of Liepāja
Archbishop Jānis Pujats
Archbishop of Riga

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Erwin Josef Ender † (1990)
Titular Archbishop of Germania in Numidia
Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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

External Link(s):

VIAF: 6746152503062110800003
WikiData: Q2524723

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 158, Number 13,727
r: Bollettino, 20 Jun 2012

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