Bishop Arthur Luysterman

Bishop Emeritus of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
18 Mar 1932		Born
26 Aug 1956	24.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium
13 Jul 1990	58.3	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium
21 Oct 1990	58.5	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium
27 Dec 1991	59.7	Succeeded	Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium
19 Dec 2003	71.7	Resigned	Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}, Belgium

MicroData Summary
Arthur Luysterman
Bishop Arthur Luysterman
(born 18 Mar 1932)
Bishop Emeritus of Gent {Ghent, Gand}

Event Place
Birth Place Meerbeke

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Gent {Ghent, Gand}.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Léonce Albert Van Peteghem †
Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Godfried Cardinal Danneels †
Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}
Bishop Robert-Joseph Mathen †
Bishop of Namur {Namen}
Bishop Jean Huard †
Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}
Bishop Paul Van den Berghe
Bishop of Antwerpen {Antwerp}

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Léonce Albert Van Peteghem † (1964)
Bishop of Gent {Ghent, Gand}
Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens † (1945)
Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}
Jozef-Ernest Cardinal van Roey † (1926)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Clemente Micara † (1920)
Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Gustaaf Cardinal Joos † (2003)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop André de Witte † (1994)
Jozef Cardinal De Kesel (2002)
Bishop Lucas Van Looy, S.D.B. (2004)
Bishop Lodewijk Aerts (2016)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 291232173
WikiData: Q329062

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 124, Number 11,192

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