Bishop Léon Lemmens †

Deceased

Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium

Titular Bishop of Municipa

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Mar 1954		Born
10 Jul 1977	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Hasselt, Belgium
22 Feb 2011	56.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium
22 Feb 2011	56.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Municipa
3 Apr 2011	57.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Municipa
2 Jun 2017	63.2	Died	Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium

MicroData Summary
Léon Lemmens
Bishop Léon Lemmens
(born 16 Mar 1954, died 2 Jun 2017)
Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}

Event Place
Birth Place Boorsem
Ordained Bishop Sacré Coeur de Koekelberg, Basilica, Brussel, Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}
Death Place Louvain, Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}

a priest for 39.8 years
a bishop for 6.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop André-Joseph (Mutien) Léonard
Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Godfried Cardinal Danneels †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Anastasia
Archbishop Giacinto Berloco
Titular Archbishop of Fidenae

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop André-Joseph (Mutien) Léonard (1991)
Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}
Godfried Cardinal Danneels † (1977)
Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}
Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens † (1945)
Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}
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

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/326958
VIAF: 172870997
WikiData: Q555817

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 22 Feb 2011
ob/c2+: CB
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 205, Number 16,987
d: CB, 2 Jun 2017
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 234, Necrology (back)

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