Bishop Guillaume van den Elzen, O.S.A. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Doruma-Dungu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Aug 1913		Born
29 Sep 1940	27.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of St. Augustine
13 Nov 1958	45.2	Appointed	Prefect of Doruma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
26 Sep 1967	54.0	Appointed	Bishop of Doruma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
25 Jan 1968	54.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Doruma, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
7 May 1983	69.7	Resigned	Bishop of Doruma-Dungu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
23 Jan 2000	86.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Doruma-Dungu, Congo (Dem. Rep.)

MicroData Summary for Guillaume van den Elzen
(WikiData: Q60056840)
Bishop Guillaume van den Elzen O.S.A. (born 24 Aug 1913, died 23 Jan 2000) Bishop Emeritus of Doruma-Dungu

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 Uden
Ordained Bishop St. Etienne, Church, Gand, Diocese of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium

a priest for 59.3 years
a bishop for 31.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Léonce Albert Van Peteghem †
Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Emiel-Jozef De Smedt †
Bishop of Brugge {Bruges}
Bishop François-Odon De Wilde, O.P. †
Bishop of Niangara

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Léonce Albert Van Peteghem † (1964)
Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}
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

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Emile Aiti Waro Leru’a † (1979)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Gustave Olombe Atelumbu Musilamu † (1969)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Uden
Ordained Bishop	St. Etienne, Church, Gand, Diocese of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 6, Number 307

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