Bishop Pieter Antoon Nierman †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Groningen, Netherlands

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
29 Jan 1901		Born
15 Aug 1924	23.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Utrecht, Netherlands
10 Mar 1956	55.1	Appointed	Bishop of Groningen, Netherlands
11 May 1956	55.2	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Groningen, Netherlands
21 May 1969	68.3	Resigned	Bishop of Groningen, Netherlands
21 May 1969	68.3	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Oppidum Consilinum
29 Nov 1970	69.8	Resigned	Titular Bishop of Oppidum Consilinum
15 Sep 1976	75.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Groningen, Netherlands

MicroData Summary
Pieter Antoon Nierman
Bishop Pieter Antoon Nierman
(born 29 Jan 1901, died 15 Sep 1976)
Bishop Emeritus of Groningen

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

Event Place
Birth Place Hilversum, Diocese of Haarlem
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Groningen, Diocese of Groningen

a priest for 52.0 years
a bishop for 20.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Bernardus Johannes Alfrink †
Archbishop of Utrecht
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Josephus Hubertus Gulielmus Lemmens †
Bishop of Roermond
Bishop Franciscus Gerard Constantin Kramer, O.F.M. †
Bishop of Changzhi [Luan]

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Bernardus Johannes Alfrink † (1951)
Archbishop of Utrecht
Archbishop Paolo Giobbe † (1925)
Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Thebaide
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:
Bishop Rudolf Joseph Manfred Staverman, O.F.M. † (1956)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Johannes Willem Maria Bluyssen (Bluijssen) † (1961)
Bishop Hubertus Cornelis Antonius Ernst † (1967)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 282469138
WikiData: Q2180828

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 108
ob/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1956, Number 37

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