Archbishop Willem Jacobus Eijk

Archbishop of Utrecht

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Jun 1953		Born	Duivendrecht
1 Jun 1985	31.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Roermond, Netherlands
17 Jul 1999	46.1	Appointed	Bishop of Groningen, Netherlands
6 Nov 1999	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Groningen, Netherlands
11 Dec 2007	54.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands
26 Jan 2008	54.6	Installed	Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands
18 Feb 2012	58.7	Elevated to Cardinal

Consistory - 2012: Created Cardinal

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Utrecht.

a priest for years
a bishop for years
a cardinal for years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen
Principal Consecrator:
Adrianus Johannes Cardinal Simonis
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Franciscus Jozef Maria Wiertz
Archbishop Sergio Lasam Utleg

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Willem Jacobus Eijk (1999)
Adrianus Johannes Cardinal Simonis (1971)
Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink † (1951)
Paolo Cardinal Giobbe † (1925)
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Joseph Hippolyte Cardinal Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Herman Willebrordus Woorts
Bishop Theodorus Cornelis Maria Hoogenboom
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Johannes Harmannes Jozefus van den Hende

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 11 Dec 2007
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 157, Number 13,646
card: Bollettino, 6 Jan 2012

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