Tournai {Doornik} (Diocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]

Past and Present Ordinaries

Heidilon † ( 880 Appointed - 902 Died)
Hadulf † ( 955 Appointed - 24 Jun 977 Died)
Ratbode † ( 1068 Appointed - 13 Jan 1098 Died)
Étienne , O.S.B. † ( 1192 Appointed - 11 Sep 1203 Died)
Gossuin de Beauffort † ( 1204 Appointed - 29 Oct 1218 Died)
Gauthier de Marsivius (Marvisius) † ( 1219 Appointed - 1251 Died)
Walter Crucius † ( 1251 Appointed - 14 Feb 1261 Died)
Jean Buchiau † ( 1261 Appointed - 1266 Died)
Jean d’Enghien † ( 1267 Appointed - 28 Jul 1274 Appointed, Bishop of Liège)
Philippe Mus de Gand † ( 1274 Appointed - 1282 Died)
Michel de Warenghien † ( 1282 Appointed - 1291 Died)
Jean de Vassogne † ( 1292 Appointed - 1300 Died)
Gui de Arvernia (Bologne) † (28 Feb 1301 Appointed - 28 Mar 1324 Appointed, Bishop of Cambrai)
Elie de Ventadour † (28 Mar 1324 Appointed - 1326 Resigned)
Guillaume de Ventadour † (15 Oct 1326 Appointed - 1333 Died)
Théobald de Saussoire † (31 May 1333 Appointed - 1334 Died)
Andrea Ghini Malpighi † (12 Sep 1334 Appointed - 20 Sep 1342 Appointed, Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna)
Jean des Prez † (25 Sep 1342 Appointed - 13 Jun 1349 Died)
Pierre de la Forêt † (24 Jul 1349 Appointed - 20 Dec 1350 Appointed, Bishop of Paris)
Philippe d’Arbois † (3 Jan 1351 Appointed - 1377 Died)
Willem (Guillaume) van Coudenberghes (Cordemberghe) † (9 Jul 1385 Ordained Bishop - 19 Aug 1393 Appointed, Bishop of Basel)
Guillaume de Cordemberghe † (14 Mar 1386 Appointed - )
Willem (Guillaume) van Coudenberghes (Cordemberghe) † (17 Mar 1399 Appointed - )
Jean de Thoisy † (17 Sep 1410 Appointed - 1433 Died)
Jean d’Harcourt † (22 Apr 1433 Appointed - 5 Nov 1436 Appointed, Archbishop of Narbonne)
Jean Chevrot † (5 Nov 1436 Appointed - 5 Sep 1460 Appointed, Bishop of Toul)
Guillaume Filastre † (4 Sep 1460 Confirmed - 11 Aug 1473 Died)
Ferry de Clugny † (8 Oct 1473 Appointed - 7 Oct 1483 Died)
Jean Monissart † (15 Oct 1483 Appointed - 11 Aug 1491 Died)
Antonio Gentile Pallavicini † (19 Aug 1491 Appointed - 21 May 1494 Resigned)
Guido , O.S.B. † (21 May 1494 Appointed - )
Pierre Kuick (Quick), O. Cist. † (20 Dec 1497 Appointed - 1506 Resigned)
Charles du Hautbois † (9 Mar 1506 Appointed - 1513 Resigned)
Louis Guillart † (8 Jun 1513 Appointed - 10 Mar 1525 Appointed, Bishop of Chartres)
Charles de Croy, O.S.B. † (29 Mar 1525 Appointed - 13 Dec 1564 Died)
Gilbert d’Oignies † (6 Jul 1565 Appointed - 25 Aug 1574 Died)
Pierre Pintaflour † (4 May 1575 Appointed - 10 Apr 1580 Died)
Maximilien Morillon † (24 Jan 1583 Appointed - 27 Mar 1586 Died)
Jean Vendeville † (15 Jan 1588 Appointed - 15 Oct 1592 Died)
Louis de Berlaymont † ( 1593 Appointed - 15 Feb 1596 Died)
Louis Michel d’Esne † (15 Sep 1597 Appointed - 1 Oct 1614 Died)
Jacob Maximilien Villain † (2 Dec 1615 Confirmed - 26 Sep 1645 Died)
François Villain de Gand † (19 Nov 1646 Appointed - 28 Dec 1666 Died)
Gilbert de Choiseul du Plessis Praslin † (22 Dec 1670 Confirmed - 31 Dec 1689 Died)
François de Caillebot de La Salle † (5 May 1692 Confirmed - May 1703 Resigned)
Louis-Marcel de Coëtlogon-Méjusseaume † (7 Sep 1705 Confirmed - 18 Apr 1707 Died)
Réné-François de Beauvau du Rivau † (19 Dec 1707 Confirmed - 20 May 1713 Resigned)
Jean-Ernest de Löwenstein-Wertheim † (22 May 1713 Appointed - 26 Jul 1731 Died)
François-Ernest de Salm-Reifferscheid † (3 Mar 1732 Confirmed - 16 Jun 1770 Died)
Wilhelm Florentin von Salm-Salm † (20 May 1776 Confirmed - 23 Sep 1793 Confirmed, Archbishop of Praha {Prague})
François Joseph Hirn † (10 Jul 1802 Appointed - 17 Aug 1819 Died)
Jean-Joseph Delplancq † (18 May 1829 Appointed - 27 Jul 1834 Died)
Gaspard-Joseph Labis † (6 Apr 1835 Appointed - 16 Nov 1872 Died)
Edmond Hyacinthe Theodore Joseph Dumont † (23 Dec 1872 Appointed - 22 Nov 1879 Resigned)
Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux † (12 Nov 1880 Appointed - 23 Sep 1897 Died)
Charles-Gustave Walravens † (16 Dec 1897 Appointed - 19 Feb 1915 Died)
Amédée Marie Léon Crooy (Crooij) † (6 Dec 1915 Appointed - 27 Nov 1923 Died)
Gaston-Antoine Rasneur † (30 Jan 1924 Appointed - 23 Nov 1939 Died)
Louis Delmotte † (24 Jan 1940 Appointed - 8 Jul 1945 Resigned)
Étienne Joseph Carton de Wiart † (8 Jul 1945 Appointed - 30 Jul 1948 Died)
Charles-Marie Himmer † (29 Dec 1948 Appointed - 2 Jul 1977 Retired)
Jean Huard † (2 Jul 1977 Appointed - 4 Oct 2002 Died)
Guy Harpigny (22 May 2003 Appointed - )

Historical Summary

Date	Event	From	To
Diocese of Tournai
6th Century	Erected		Diocese of Tournai (erected)
Diocese of Tournai and Noyon
626	United	Diocese of Noyon Diocese of Tournai	Diocese of Tournai and Noyon
1146	Split	Diocese of Tournai and Noyon	Diocese of Noyon Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}
Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}
1146	Split	Diocese of Tournai and Noyon	Diocese of Noyon Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}
12 May 1559	Territory Lost	Diocese of Cambrai Diocese of Tournai {Doornik} Archdiocese of Utrecht	Diocese of Gent {Ghent, Gand} (erected)
12 May 1559	Territory Lost	Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}	Diocese of Brugge {Bruges} (erected) Diocese of Ypres (Ieper) (erected)
12 May 1559	Territory Lost	Diocese of Cambrai Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}	Diocese of Middelburg (erected)
28 July 1965	Territory Lost	Diocese of Tournai {Doornik} (Kapelle-S. Petri, Bever-Akrenbos, Bever-S. Martini)	Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}
28 July 1965	Territory Added	Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels} (Vert-Chemin, Warresaix)	Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}
11 October 1966	Territory Lost	Diocese of Tournai {Doornik} (Everbeek-S. Mariae and Everbeek-S. Joseph; Breucq, Cocambre and La Haute (of Ellezelles); Donkerstraete and Haie-de-Viane (of Deux-Acren); and La Hutte (of Plobecq))	Diocese of Gent {Ghent, Gand}
11 October 1966	Territory Added	Diocese of Gent {Ghent, Gand} (Sint-Bavokerk (Amougies), Sint Brixius (Orroir), and Rousseignies-S. Amandi)	Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}
8 April 1967	Territory Added	Diocese of Brugge {Bruges} (West Flanders and Hainaut)	Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}
30 November 1977	Territory Lost	Diocese of Liège (Luik, Lüttich) (St. Remigius in Landenne, B. M. V. Auxiliatrix in Petit-Wäret, St. Stephen in Seilles and SS. Peter and Paul in Povedroux) Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels} (S. Philibert in Noville-sur-Mehaigne) Diocese of Tournai {Doornik} (St. Lambert in Boignée)	Diocese of Namur {Namen}

Year Catholics Total Population Percent Catholic Diocesan Priests Religious Priests Total Priests Catholics Per Priest Permanent Deacons Male Religious Female Religious Parishes Source

Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}

1950 1,248,000 .0% 1,150 280 1,430 0 900 4,500 554 ap1951

1969 1,130,000 1,331,677 84.9% 1,165 409 1,574 717 709 3,981 519 ap1971

1980 1,182,000 1,313,294 90.0% 937 335 1,272 929 22 335 3,100 584 ap1981

1990 1,000,000 1,271,649 78.6% 663 271 934 1,070 37 271 1,735 584 ap1991

1999 950,000 1,284,347 74.0% 518 163 681 1,395 33 189 1,190 584 ap2000

2000 920,000 1,284,347 71.6% 490 159 649 1,417 33 160 1,230 584 ap2001

2001 910,000 1,280,427 71.1% 477 143 620 1,467 34 143 1,102 584 ap2002

2002 900,000 1,284,761 70.1% 456 137 593 1,517 39 137 1,075 584 ap2003

2003 900,000 1,279,823 70.3% 440 130 570 1,578 36 130 1,042 624 ap2004

2004 900,000 1,279,467 70.3% 418 130 548 1,642 34 130 992 584 ap2005

2010 904,905 1,291,850 70.0% 366 94 460 1,967 34 238 684 576 ap2011

2014 994,000 1,328,760 74.8% 277 89 366 2,715 38 178 480 575 ap2015

2017 650,000 1,337,759 48.6% 208 78 286 2,272 40 158 380 572 ap2018

2020 708,400 1,344,241 52.7% 202 71 273 2,594 39 87 360 550 ap2021

2022 709,301 1,345,947 52.7% 189 58 247 2,871 39 76 287 547 ap2023

Year	Catholics	Total Population	Percent Catholic	Diocesan Priests	Religious Priests	Total Priests	Catholics Per Priest	Permanent Deacons	Male Religious	Female Religious	Parishes	Source
Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}
1950		1,248,000	.0%	1,150	280	1,430	0		900	4,500	554	ap1951
1969	1,130,000	1,331,677	84.9%	1,165	409	1,574	717		709	3,981	519	ap1971
1980	1,182,000	1,313,294	90.0%	937	335	1,272	929	22	335	3,100	584	ap1981
1990	1,000,000	1,271,649	78.6%	663	271	934	1,070	37	271	1,735	584	ap1991
1999	950,000	1,284,347	74.0%	518	163	681	1,395	33	189	1,190	584	ap2000
2000	920,000	1,284,347	71.6%	490	159	649	1,417	33	160	1,230	584	ap2001
2001	910,000	1,280,427	71.1%	477	143	620	1,467	34	143	1,102	584	ap2002
2002	900,000	1,284,761	70.1%	456	137	593	1,517	39	137	1,075	584	ap2003
2003	900,000	1,279,823	70.3%	440	130	570	1,578	36	130	1,042	624	ap2004
2004	900,000	1,279,467	70.3%	418	130	548	1,642	34	130	992	584	ap2005
2010	904,905	1,291,850	70.0%	366	94	460	1,967	34	238	684	576	ap2011
2014	994,000	1,328,760	74.8%	277	89	366	2,715	38	178	480	575	ap2015
2017	650,000	1,337,759	48.6%	208	78	286	2,272	40	158	380	572	ap2018
2020	708,400	1,344,241	52.7%	202	71	273	2,594	39	87	360	550	ap2021
2022	709,301	1,345,947	52.7%	189	58	247	2,871	39	76	287	547	ap2023

Note: Any changes in boundaries over time are not indicated in the above table.

Affiliated Bishops, Deceased

Philippe d’Arbois † (Bishop: 3 Jan 1351 to 1377)
Gui de Arvernia (Bologne) † (Bishop: 28 Feb 1301 to 28 Mar 1324)
Gilles Barbier, O.F.M. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 3 Apr 1476 to 28 Mar 1494)
Maurice Baudoux †
Gossuin de Beauffort † (Bishop: 1204 to 29 Oct 1218)
Réné-François de Beauvau du Rivau † (Bishop: 19 Dec 1707 to 20 May 1713)
Louis de Berlaymont † (Administrator: 1593 to 15 Feb 1596)
Jean Buchiau † (Bishop: 1261 to 1266)
Nicolas Bureau, O.F.M. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 2 Dec 1519 to 1551)
Giacomo Bustini, O.F.M. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 1394 to 1395)
François de Caillebot de La Salle † (Bishop: 5 May 1692 to May 1703)
Étienne Joseph Carton de Wiart † (Bishop: 8 Jul 1945 to 30 Jul 1948)
Jean Chevrot † (Bishop: 5 Nov 1436 to 5 Sep 1460)
Gilbert de Choiseul du Plessis Praslin † (Bishop: 22 Dec 1670 to 31 Dec 1689)
Ferry de Clugny † (Bishop: 8 Oct 1473 to 7 Oct 1483)
Louis-Marcel de Coëtlogon-Méjusseaume † (Bishop: 7 Sep 1705 to 18 Apr 1707)
Guillaume de Cordemberghe † (Bishop: 14 Mar 1386)
Willem (Guillaume) van Coudenberghes (Cordemberghe) † (Bishop: 9 Jul 1385 to 19 Aug 1393)
Amédée Marie Léon Crooy (Crooij) † (Bishop: 6 Dec 1915 to 27 Nov 1923)
Charles de Croy, O.S.B. † (Bishop: 29 Mar 1525 to 13 Dec 1564)
Walter Crucius † (Bishop: 1251 to 14 Feb 1261)
Charles Alexandre d’Arberg et de Valengin † (Deacon: 22 Mar 1760; Priest: 19 Dec 1761 to 31 Aug 1767)
Jean-Baptiste Decrolière † (Priest: 26 May 1866 to 11 Jul 1892)
Jean Ghislain Delcuve, O.F.M. Cap. †
Louis Delmotte † (Priest: 28 Oct 1919; Bishop: 24 Jan 1940 to 8 Jul 1945)
Jean-Joseph Delplancq † (Priest: 18 Jun 1791; Bishop: 18 May 1829 to 27 Jul 1834)
Albert Louis Descamps † (Auxiliary Bishop: 3 Nov 1960 to 1964)
Louis Michel d’Esne † (Bishop: 15 Sep 1597 to 1 Oct 1614)
Jean d’Harcourt † (Bishop: 22 Apr 1433 to 5 Nov 1436)
Charles du Hautbois † (Bishop: 9 Mar 1506 to 1513)
Edmond Hyacinthe Theodore Joseph Dumont † (Bishop: 23 Dec 1872 to 22 Nov 1879)
Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux † (Priest: 8 Sep 1849; Apostolic Administrator: 22 Nov 1879; Bishop: 12 Nov 1880 to 23 Sep 1897)
Jean d’Enghien † (Bishop: 1267 to 28 Jul 1274)
Guillaume Filastre † (Bishop: 4 Sep 1460 to 11 Aug 1473)
Andrea Ghini Malpighi † (Bishop: 12 Sep 1334 to 20 Sep 1342)
Théodore-Joseph Gravez †
Louis Guillart † (Bishop: 8 Jun 1513 to 10 Mar 1525)
Guillaume Hauwere † (Auxiliary Bishop: 27 Apr 1552 to 1560)
Charles-Marie Himmer † (Bishop: 29 Dec 1948 to 2 Jul 1977)
François Joseph Hirn † (Bishop: 10 Jul 1802 to 17 Aug 1819)
Jean Huard † (Priest: 27 Dec 1953; Bishop: 2 Jul 1977 to 4 Oct 2002)
Lucas Jacobi † (Auxiliary Bishop: 10 Mar 1561 to 26 Oct 1574)
Pierre Kuick (Quick), O. Cist. † (Bishop: 20 Dec 1497 to 1506)
Gaspard-Joseph Labis † (Deacon: 18 Feb 1815; Priest: 23 Sep 1815; Bishop: 6 Apr 1835 to 16 Nov 1872)
Paulin Ladeuze † (Priest: 17 Dec 1892 to 21 Oct 1928)
Pierre de la Forêt † (Bishop: 24 Jul 1349 to 20 Dec 1350)
Jules Lecouvet † (Auxiliary Bishop: 9 Jul 1949 to 31 May 1959)
Jean-Ernest de Löwenstein-Wertheim † (Bishop: 22 May 1713 to 26 Jul 1731)
Nicolas Thomas Maes, O.F.M. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 26 Jul 1437)
Gauthier de Marsivius (Marvisius) † (Bishop: 1219 to 1251)
Raphael Mercatel, O.S.B. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 16 Feb 1487 to 3 Aug 1508)
Jean Monissart † (Bishop: 15 Oct 1483 to 11 Aug 1491)
Maximilien Morillon † (Bishop: 24 Jan 1583 to 27 Mar 1586)
Philippe Mus de Gand † (Bishop: 1274 to 1282)
Jacobus de Ockenbroge, O.F.M. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 1392)
Gilbert d’Oignies † (Bishop: 6 Jul 1565 to 25 Aug 1574)
Antonio Gentile Pallavicini † (Administrator: 19 Aug 1491 to 21 May 1494)
Pierre Pintaflour † (Bishop: 4 May 1575 to 10 Apr 1580)
Emile Joseph Pourbaix † (Priest: 4 Jun 1871; Auxiliary Bishop: 19 Jan 1893 to 8 Jun 1894)
Jean des Prez † (Bishop: 25 Sep 1342 to 13 Jun 1349)
Gaston-Antoine Rasneur † (Priest: 1899; Bishop: 30 Jan 1924 to 23 Nov 1939)
François-Ernest de Salm-Reifferscheid † (Bishop: 3 Mar 1732 to 16 Jun 1770)
Wilhelm Florentin von Salm-Salm † (Bishop: 20 May 1776 to 23 Sep 1793)
Pierre Samain † (Priest: 2 Apr 1934; Auxiliary Bishop: 31 May 1967 to 28 Feb 1984)
Théobald de Saussoire † (Bishop: 31 May 1333 to 1334)
Étienne de Suisy †
Jean de Thoisy † (Bishop: 17 Sep 1410 to 1433)
Jean de Vassogne † (Bishop: 1292 to 1300)
Jean Vendeville † (Bishop: 15 Jan 1588 to 15 Oct 1592)
Elie de Ventadour † (Bishop: 28 Mar 1324 to 1326)
Guillaume de Ventadour † (Bishop: 15 Oct 1326 to 1333)
Beaudoin Villain, O.F.M. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 11 May 1506 to 6 Sep 1519)
Jacob Maximilien Villain † (Bishop: 2 Dec 1615 to 26 Sep 1645)
François Villain de Gand † (Bishop: 19 Nov 1646 to 28 Dec 1666)
Charles-Gustave Walravens † (Deacon: 1 Apr 1865; Priest: 10 Jun 1865; Auxiliary Bishop: 28 Jan 1897; Bishop: 16 Dec 1897 to 19 Feb 1915)
Michel de Warenghien † (Bishop: 1282 to 1291)
Felix Josephus Hubertus de Wavrans †
Étienne , O.S.B. † (Bishop: 1192 to 11 Sep 1203)
Guido , O.S.B. † (Bishop: 21 May 1494)
Hadulf † (Bishop: 955 to 24 Jun 977)
Heidilon † (Bishop: 880 to 902)
Pierre , O.P. † (Auxiliary Bishop: 1345 to 1359)
Ratbode † (Bishop: 1068 to 13 Jan 1098)

Source(s)

Diocese of Tournai and Noyon
- Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Volume 1, Page 589
Diocese of Tournai {Doornik}
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 1, Page 489, and Page 490
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 2, Page 253
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 3, Page 316
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 340
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 383
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 6, Page 411
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 373
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 559
- Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 372
- Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Volume 1, Page 251
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 57, Page 1,008, and Page 1,009
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 58, Page 1,191, and Page 1,192
- Acta Apostolicae Sedis, Volume 59, Page 808, and Page 809

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