Bishop Pieter Jan Antoon Moors †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Roermond, Netherlands

Titular Bishop of Traiectum ad Mosam

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Aug 1906		Born
5 Apr 1930	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Roermond, Netherlands
26 Jan 1959	52.4	Appointed	Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands
17 Mar 1959	52.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands
29 Dec 1970	64.3	Resigned	Bishop of Roermond, Netherlands
29 Dec 1970	64.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Traiectum ad Mosam
16 Sep 1980	74.0	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Roermond, Netherlands

MicroData Summary
Pieter Jan Antoon Moors
Bishop Pieter Jan Antoon Moors
(born 25 Aug 1906, died 16 Sep 1980)
Bishop Emeritus of Roermond

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 Weert, Diocese of Roermond
Ordained Bishop Saint Christophe, Cathedral, Roermond, Diocese of Roermond

a priest for 50.4 years
a bishop for 21.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Bernardus Johannes Alfrink †
Archbishop of Utrecht
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Willem Pieter Adriaan Maria Mutsaerts †
Bishop of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc)
Bishop Jozef Willem Maria Baeten †
Bishop of Breda

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Bernardus Johannes Alfrink † (1951)
Archbishop of Utrecht
Archbishop Paolo Giobbe † (1925)
Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Thebaide
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Franz Janssen, C.M. † (1959)
Bishop Estanislau Arnoldo Van Melis, C.P. † (1963)
Bishop Hendrik Theodorus Edmund Beel † (1965)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Johannes Willem Maria Bluyssen (Bluijssen) † (1961)
Bishop Eugen Joseph Frans Vroemen, S.M.M. † (1965)
Bishop Theodorus Hubertus Moors, M.S.C. † (1967)
Bishop Hubertus Cornelis Antonius Ernst † (1967)
Bishop Hendrik Hubert Frehen, S.M.M. † (1968)
Bishop Johann Bernard Wilhelm Maria Möller † (1969)
Adrianus Johannes Cardinal Simonis † (1971)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 291146549
WikiData: Q2627490

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 108
b/ob/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1959, Number 16

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