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Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to India

Titular Archbishop of Salamis

Events

a priest for 50.9 years a bishop for 26.5 years

Principal Consecrator: Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.SS.R. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Archbishop Leo Peter Kierkels, C.P. † (1931) Willem Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.SS.R. † (1918) 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 †

Principal Consecrator of: Bishop Vittore Rosario Fernandes † Bishop Mathurin-Pie Le Ruyet, O.F.M. Cap. † Bishop Marie-Louis-Joseph-Constantin Tournier, M.E.P. † Bishop Vincent Victor Dereere, O.C.D. † Archbishop John Peter Leonard, S.J. † Archbishop Jean-Marie Masson, O.M.I. † Archbishop Thomas Pothacamury (Pothakamuri) † Bishop René-Jean-Baptiste-Germain Feuga, M.E.P. † Bishop George Alapatt † Thomas Benjamin Cardinal Cooray, O.M.I. † Archbishop Eugene Louis D'Souza, M.S.F.S. †

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