Bishop Rémy Victor Vancottem

Bishop Emeritus of Namur {Namen}, Belgium

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Jul 1943		Born
27 Jun 1969	25.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium
15 Feb 1982	38.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}, Belgium
15 Feb 1982	38.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Unizibira
21 Mar 1982	38.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Unizibira
31 May 2010	66.8	Appointed	Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium
5 Jun 2019	75.8	Retired	Bishop of Namur {Namen}, Belgium

MicroData Summary for Rémy Victor Vancottem
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Bishop Rémy Victor Vancottem (born 25 Jul 1943) Bishop Emeritus of Namur {Namen}

Ad Limina - May 2010: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Tubize
Ordained Bishop St. Jean Baptiste, Wavre

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Namur {Namen}.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens †
Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Godfried Danneels †
Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Emiel-Jozef De Smedt †
Bishop of Brugge {Bruges}
Bishop Jean Huard †
Bishop of Tournai {Doornik}
Bishop Paul Constant Schoenmaekers †
Titular Bishop of Acarassus
Bishop Jean-Baptiste Musty †
Titular Bishop of Botriana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Godfried Danneels † (1977)
Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel {Malines-Brussels}
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Mister Roger Joseph Vangheluwe (1985)
Jozef Cardinal De Kesel (2002)
Julien Cardinal Ries † (2012)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Tubize
Ordained Bishop	St. Jean Baptiste, Wavre

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 31 May 2010
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 239, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 5 Jun 2019
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 73, Number 5,859

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