Bishop Joannes Nicolaas Lemmens †

Deceased

Bishop of Vancouver Island, USA

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Jun 1850		Born
27 Mar 1875	24.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Vancouver Island, USA
29 May 1888	37.9	Appointed	Bishop of Vancouver Island, USA
5 Aug 1888	38.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Vancouver Island, USA
10 Aug 1897	47.1	Died	Bishop of Vancouver Island, USA

MicroData Summary
Joannes Nicolaas Lemmens
Bishop Joannes Nicolaas Lemmens
(born 3 Jun 1850, died 10 Aug 1897)
Bishop of Vancouver Island

Event Place
Birth Place Schimmert, Vicariate Apostolic of Limburg, Netherlands
Ordained Priest Brussels, Archdiocese of Mechelen, Belgium
Ordained Bishop Victoria, Diocese of Vancouver Island
Death Place Guatemala, Guatemala

a priest for 22.3 years
a bishop for 9.0 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Giacomo Cattani †
Titular Archbishop of Ancyra
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop William Hickley Gross, C.Ss.R. †
Archbishop of Oregon City, Oregon
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Egidius Jünger †
Bishop of Nesqually, Washington
Bishop Alphonse Joseph Glorieux †
Titular Bishop of Apollonia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop William Hickley Gross, C.Ss.R. † (1873)
Archbishop of Oregon City, Oregon
Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley † (1853)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Archbishop Gaetano Bedini † (1852)
Titular Archbishop of Thebae
Lodovico Cardinal Altieri † (1836)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Portico (Campitelli)
Pope Gregory XVI (1831)
(Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. †)
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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 Edward John O’Dea † (1896)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 281896468
WikiData: Q127695

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 582
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1888, Number 44
c1: CB, 22 May 2022

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