Bishop Léon Lommel †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Luxembourg

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Feb 1893		Born	Schleiderhof
13 Jul 1919	26.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Luxembourg
14 May 1949	56.3	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Luxembourg
14 May 1949	56.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Nephelis
29 Jun 1949	56.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Nephelis
21 Oct 1956	63.7	Succeeded	Bishop of Luxembourg
13 Feb 1971	78.0	Retired	Bishop of Luxembourg
12 Jun 1978	85.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Luxembourg

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

a priest for 58.9 years
a bishop for 29.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Fernando Cardinal Cento †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Lucien-Sidroine Lebrun †
Bishop Jacques Mangers, S.M. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Léon Lommel † (1949)
Fernando Cardinal Cento † (1922)
Giovanni Cardinal Tacci Porcelli † (1895)
Amilcare Cardinal Malagola † (1876)
Filippo Cardinal de Angelis † (1826)
Pietro Francesco Cardinal Galleffi † (1819)
Alessandro Cardinal Mattei † (1777)
Bernardino Cardinal Giraud † (1767)
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:
Archbishop Nicolas Kinsch, S.C.I. †
Archbishop Jean Hengen †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop André Jacques, C.I.C.M. †
Bishop Matthias Wehr †
Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen †
Bishop José Alfonso Tscherrig, C.SS.R. †
Bishop Jean-Baptiste Musty †
Bishop Carl Schmidt †

Source(s):

b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1949, Number 47

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