Bishop John Willem Nicolaysen Gran, O.C.S.O. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Oslo

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Apr 1920		Born	Bergen
21 May 1957	37.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance
27 Dec 1962	42.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Oslo, Norway
27 Dec 1962	42.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Raphia
24 Mar 1963	43.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Raphia
25 Nov 1964	44.6	Succeeded	Bishop of Oslo, Norway
26 Nov 1983	63.6	Resigned	Bishop of Oslo, Norway
20 Mar 2008	88.0	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Oslo, Norway

a priest for 50.8 years
a bishop for 45.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Jacques Mangers, S.M. †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Johannes Theodor Suhr, O.S.B. †
Bishop Johann Wember, M.S.F. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Willem Nicolaysen Gran, O.C.S.O. † (1963)
Bishop Jacques Mangers, S.M. † (1932)
Bishop Petrus Nommesch † (1920)
Archbishop Sebastiano Nicotra † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (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 †

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Bernt Ivar (Markus) Eidsvig, C.R.S.A.
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Gerhard Schwenzer, SS.CC.
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Hans Ludvig Martensen, S.J.
Bishop Bernt Ivar (Markus) Eidsvig, C.R.S.A.

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