Bishop Felicissimus Alphonse Raeymaeckers, O.F.M. Cap. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Lahore, Pakistan

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Mar 1915		Born
3 Jun 1939	24.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
5 Aug 1963	48.3	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Lahore, Pakistan
5 Aug 1963	48.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Aperlae
20 Oct 1963	48.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Aperlae
29 Sep 1966	51.5	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Lahore, Pakistan
12 Mar 1967	52.0	Succeeded	Bishop of Lahore, Pakistan
10 Jul 1975	60.3	Resigned	Bishop of Lahore, Pakistan
24 Jun 1978	63.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Lahore, Pakistan

MicroData Summary
Felicissimus Alphonse Raeymaeckers
Bishop Felicissimus Alphonse Raeymaeckers O.F.M. Cap.
(born 12 Mar 1915, died 24 Jun 1978)
Bishop Emeritus of Lahore

Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Westmeerbeek, Archdiocese of Mechelen, Belgium
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 39.0 years
a bishop for 14.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Paul VI
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Pietro Sigismondi †
Titular Archbishop of Neapolis in Pisidia
Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli †
Titular Archbishop of Iconium

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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

Ordained Priest:
Joseph Cardinal Coutts (1971)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Simeon Anthony Pereira † (1971)
Archbishop Armando Trindade † (1973)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q4388992

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1963, Number 109

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