Victor-Auguste-Isidore Cardinal Dechamps, C.SS.R. †

Deceased

Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium

Cardinal-Priest of San Bernardo alle Terme

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Dec 1810		Born
20 Dec 1834	24.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mechelen, Belgium
13 Jun 1836	25.5	Professed	Priest of Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer
25 Sep 1865	54.8	Appointed	Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium
1 Oct 1865	54.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium
20 Dec 1867	57.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium
15 Mar 1875	64.2	Elevated to Cardinal
31 Mar 1875	64.3	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Bernardo alle Terme
29 Sep 1883	72.8	Died	Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium

MicroData Summary for Victor-Auguste-Isidore Dechamps
(VIAF: 89587707; WikiData: Q1301920)
Victor-Auguste-Isidore Cardinal Dechamps C.SS.R. (born 6 Dec 1810, died 29 Sep 1883) Archbishop of Mechelen

First Vatican Council: Council Father
Consistory - March 1875: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1878: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Melle, Diocese of Gent {Ghent, Gand}
Ordained Priest Mechelen, Archdiocese of Mechelen
Ordained Bishop S. Alfonso Maria de Ligorio, Church, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Mechelen, Archdiocese of Mechelen
Buried Place (Original) Cemetery, Rumilliers
Buried Place (Current) Cathedral, Crypt, Mechelen, Archdiocese of Mechelen

a priest for 48.7 years
a bishop for 17.9 years
a cardinal for 8.5 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Engelbert Sterckx †
Archbishop of Mechelen
Principal Consecrator:
Karl August Cardinal von Reisach †
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Henry Edward Manning †
Archbishop of Westminster, England
Archbishop Giuseppe Berardi †
Titular Archbishop of Nicaea

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Karl August Cardinal von Reisach † (1836)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Pope Gregory XVI (1831)
(Bartolomeo Alberto (Mauro) Cappellari, O.S.B. †)
Bartolomeo Cardinal Pacca † (1786)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Giovanni Carlo Cardinal Boschi † (1760)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
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

Ordained Priest:
Bishop William Stang † (1878)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Théodore-Joseph Gravez † (1868)
Bishop Charles André Anthonis † (1868)
Archbishop Victor-Jean-Joseph-Marie van den Branden de Reeth † (1879)
Bishop Isidore-Joseph du Rousseaux † (1880)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Melle, Diocese of Gent {Ghent, Gand}
Ordained Priest	Mechelen, Archdiocese of Mechelen
Ordained Bishop	S. Alfonso Maria de Ligorio, Church, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place	Mechelen, Archdiocese of Mechelen
Buried Place (Original)	Cemetery, Rumilliers
Buried Place (Current)	Cathedral, Crypt, Mechelen, Archdiocese of Mechelen

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 374, and Page 400
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 47
ob/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 211, Additions/Corrections (front)
c1+: Google Books
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1865, Number 33
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 15 Mar 1875

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