Bishop Wilhelmus Adrianus Josephus Maria de Bekker †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Paramaribo, Suriname, Antilles

Motto: Testimonium Domini Fidele

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Apr 1939		Born
25 May 1985	46.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Paramaribo, Suriname, Antilles
Aug 2003³	64.2	Elected	Administrator of Paramaribo, Suriname, Antilles
12 Nov 2004	65.5	Appointed	Bishop of Paramaribo, Suriname, Antilles
30 Jan 2005	65.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Paramaribo, Suriname, Antilles
31 May 2014	75.0	Retired	Bishop of Paramaribo, Suriname, Antilles
3 Jun 2026	87.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Paramaribo, Suriname, Antilles

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Wilhelmus Adrianus Josephus Maria de Bekker
Bishop Wilhelmus Adrianus Josephus Maria de Bekker
(born 27 Apr 1939, died 3 Jun 2026)
Bishop Emeritus of Paramaribo

Ad Limina - April 2008: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Helmond, Vicariate Apostolic of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands
Ordained Bishop Saints Pierre et Paul, Cathedral, Paramaribo, Diocese of Paramaribo, Suriname
Death Place Paramaribo, Diocese of Paramaribo, Suriname

a priest for 41.0 years
a bishop for 21.3 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Aloysius Ferdinandus Zichem, C.Ss.R. †
Bishop of Paramaribo, Suriname
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Adrianus Herman van Luyn, S.D.B.
Bishop of Rotterdam
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Edward Joseph Gilbert, C.Ss.R. †
Archbishop of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Archbishop Lawrence Aloysius Burke, S.J. †
Archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Adrianus Herman van Luyn, S.D.B. (1994)
Bishop of Rotterdam
Adrianus Johannes Cardinal Simonis † (1971)
Archbishop of Utrecht
Bernardus Johannes Cardinal 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 Karel Marinus Choennie (2016)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Helmond, Vicariate Apostolic of ’s-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), Netherlands
Ordained Bishop	Saints Pierre et Paul, Cathedral, Paramaribo, Diocese of Paramaribo, Suriname
Death Place	Paramaribo, Diocese of Paramaribo, Suriname

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1622227

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 178, Number 14,815
r: Bollettino, 31 May 2014
d: CB, 3 Jun 2026
dadm: CB, 4 Jun 2026

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