Bishop Joseph Bernard Louis Willigers, M.H.M. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Jinja, Uganda

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
26 Oct 1930		Born
5 May 1954	23.5	Professed	Member of St. Joseph’s Missionary Society of Mill Hill
10 Jul 1955	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of St. Joseph’s Missionary Society of Mill Hill
13 Jul 1967	36.7	Appointed	Bishop of Jinja, Uganda
3 Dec 1967	37.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Jinja, Uganda
2 Mar 2010	79.3	Retired	Bishop of Jinja, Uganda
30 Sep 2012	81.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Jinja, Uganda

MicroData Summary
Joseph Bernard Louis Willigers
Bishop Joseph Bernard Louis Willigers M.H.M.
(born 26 Oct 1930, died 30 Sep 2012)
Bishop Emeritus of Jinja

Ad Limina - March 2010: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Gronsveld, Netherlands

a priest for 57.2 years
a bishop for 44.8 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bernard William Cardinal Griffin †
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga †
Archbishop of Kampala
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Joannes de Reeper, M.H.M. †
Bishop of Kisumu
Bishop James Odongo †
Titular Bishop of Bahanna

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga † (1966)
Archbishop of Kampala
Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa † (1952)
Bishop of Bukoba
Archbishop David James Mathew † (1938)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Bithynia
Arthur Cardinal Hinsley † (1926)
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val y Zulueta † (1900)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Mariano Cardinal Rampolla del Tindaro † (1882)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Edward Henry Cardinal Howard of Norfolk † (1872)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Carlo Cardinal Sacconi † (1851)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Giacomo Filippo Cardinal Fransoni † (1822)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
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 Joseph Mukwaya † (1982)
Bishop Charles Martin Wamika † (1994)
Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga † (1997)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q281582

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 2 Mar 2010
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 126
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 212, Necrology (back)

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