Tuesday, 29 November 2022 22:13

Episcopal MSC - a tribute to our past.

Episcopal MSC - a tribute to our past.

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Our first bishop, Henry Verius, Yule Island

 

Last week, we listed current bishops. Now the honour list of the past.

Interesting to note countries of dioceses and countries of origin of the bishops.

Deceased Bishops (13 Archbishops, 47 Bishops)

2021: Bishop Paul Eusebius Mea Kaiuea, M.S.C., Bishop of Tarawa and Nauru (Kiribati)

2020: Bishop Desmond Charles Moore, M.S.C., Bishop of Alotau–Sideia (Papua New Guinea)

2019: Bishop Ambrose Kiapseni, M.S.C., Bishop of Kavieng (Papua New Guinea)

2018: Bishop Paul John Marx, M.S.C., Bishop of Kerema (Papua New Guinea)

2018: Bishop Agenor Girardi, M.S.C., Bishop of União da Vitória (Brazil)

2017: Archbishop Carmelo Cassati, M.S.C., Archbishop of Trani–Barletta–Bisceglie (Italy)

2016: Bishop Andreas Peter Cornelius Sol, M.S.C., Bishop of Amboina (Indonesia)

2014: Bishop Edmund John Patrick Collins, M.S.C., Bishop of Darwin (Australia)

2013: Bishop Joseph Frans Lescrauwaet, M.S.C., Auxiliary Bishop of Haarlem (Netherlands)

2013: Bishop Patrick Taval, M.S.C., Bishop of Kerema (Papua New Guinea)

2011: Archbishop Jacobus Duivenvoorde, M.S.C., Metropolitan Archbishop of Merauke (Indonesia)

2010: Bishop Josephus Tethool, M.S.C., Auxiliary Bishop of Amboina (Indonesia)

2008: Bishop Angelo Cella, M.S.C., Bishop of Frosinone–Veroli–Ferentino (Italy)

2003: Bishop Charles Van den Ouwelant, M.S.C., Bishop of Surigao (Philippines)

2003: Bishop Theodorus Hubertus Moors, M.S.C., Bishop of Manado (Indonesia)

1999: Bishop Paschalis Soedita Hardjasoemarta, M.S.C., Bishop of Purwokerto (Indonesia)

1999: Bishop Eugene James Cuskelly, M.S.C., Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane (Australia)

1998: Bishop Luke Paul Matlatarea, M.S.C., Bishop of Bereina (Papua New Guinea)

1997: Bishop Pierre-Auguste-Antoine-Marie Guichet, M.S.C., Bishop of Tarawa (Kiribati)

1994: Bishop Octave-Marie Terrienne, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of Gilbert Islands (Kiribati)

1994: Bishop Edward Francis Kelly, M.S.C., Bishop of Toowoomba (Australia)

1993: Archbishop Virgil Patrick Copas, M.S.C., Archbishop-Bishop of Kerema (Papua New Guinea)

1993: Bishop Federico Kaiser Depel, M.S.C., Bishop-Prelate of Caravelí (Peru)

1992: Archbishop Eugène Klein, M.S.C., Metropolitan Archbishop of Nouméa (New Caledonia)

1990: Bishop Germán Schmitz Sauerborn, M.S.C., Auxiliary Bishop of Lima (Peru)

1990: Bishop John Thomas Durkin, M.S.C., Bishop of Louis Trichardt–Tzaneen (South Africa)

1990: Bishop Pedro G. Magugat, M.S.C., Bishop of Urdaneta (Philippines)

1989: Archbishop Albert-Leo Bundervoet, M.S.C., Metropolitan Archbishop of Rabaul (Papua New Guinea)

1988: Bishop Afonso Maria Ungarelli, M.S.C., Bishop-Prelate of Pinheiro (Brazil)

1988: Bishop Pedro Paulo Koop, M.S.C., Bishop of Lins (Brazil)

1985: Bishop John Patrick O’Loughlin, M.S.C., Bishop of Darwin (Australia)

1985: Bishop Joseph Weigl, M.S.C., Bishop of Bokungu–Ikela (Congo-Kinshasa)

1984: Bishop Alfred Matthew Stemper, M.S.C., Bishop of Kavieng (Papua New Guinea)

1983: Bishop Jacques Grent, M.S.C., Bishop of Amboina (Indonesia)

1983: Bishop Guillaume Schoemaker, M.S.C., Bishop of Purwokerto (Indonesia)

1982: Bishop Théophile Albert Cadoux, M.S.C., Bishop of Kaolack (Senegal)

1982: Bishop Louis Vangeke, M.S.C., Bishop of Bereina (Papua New Guinea)

1981: Bishop Nicolaas Verhoeven, M.S.C., Bishop of Manado (Indonesia)

1978: Archbishop Pierre Wijnants, M.S.C., Metropolitan Archbishop of Mbandaka–Bikoro (Congo-Kinshasa)

1978: Archbishop Johannes Höhne, M.S.C., Metropolitan Archbishop of Rabaul (Papua New Guinea)

1975: Archbishop Herman Tillemans, M.S.C., Metropolitan Archbishop of Merauke (Indonesia)

1973: Bishop Francis John Doyle, M.S.C., Bishop of Sideia (Papua New Guinea)

1967: Archbishop Hilaire Marie Vermeiren, M.S.C., Metropolitan Archbishop of Coquilhatville (Congo-Kinshasa)

1967: Bishop Amleto de Angelis, M.S.C., Bishop of Viana (Brazil)

1964: Bishop Leo Isidore Scharmach, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of Rabaul (Papua New Guinea)

1963: Archbishop Gilla Vincenzo Gremigni, M.S.C., Archbishop-Bishop of Novara (Italy)

1961: Bishop Giovanni Vrakking, M.S.C., Bishop of Surigao (Philippines)

1960: Bishop Francis-Xavier Gsell, M.S.C., Bishop of Darwin (Australia)

1959: Bishop André Sorin, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea)

1955: Bishop Juan Perelló y Pou, M.S.C., Bishop of Vic (Spain)

1954: Bishop Gerard Vesters, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of Rabaul (Papua New Guinea)

1953: Archbishop Alain Guynot de Boismenu, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of Papua (Papua New Guinea)

1952: Bishop Joannes Walter Panis, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of Manado (Indonesia)

1949: Bishop Edoardo van Goethem, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of Coquilhatville (Congo-Kinshasa)

1943: Bishop Joseph Bach, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of Gilbert Islands (Kiribati)

1942: Bishop Giovanni Aerts, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of Dutch New Guinea (Indonesia)

1929: Bishop Joseph-Marie Leray, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of Gilbert Islands (Kiribati)

1926: Archbishop Louis Couppé, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of Rabaul (Papua New Guinea)

1912: Archbishop Louis-André Navarre, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea)

1892: ishop Stanislas Henri Verjus, M.S.C., Vicar Apostolic of New Britain (Papua New Guinea) and Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea)

Other Former Prelates (9)

>2017: Fr. Raymundo Sabio, M.S.C., Prefect Apostolic of Marshall Islands (Marshall Islands)

2014: Fr. John Rarikin Ikataere, M.S.C., Ecclesiastical Superior of Funafuti (Tuvalu)

1991: Fr. Matthias Buchholz (步堅牧), M.S.C., Prefect Apostolic of Shiqian 石阡 (China)

1946: Fr. Luigi Baumeister (包美德), M.S.C., Ecclesiastical Superior of Shiqian 石阡 (China)

1941: Fr. Bernardo Visser, M.S.C., Prefect Apostolic of Purwokerto (Indonesia)

1937: Fr. Joseph Lebeau, M.S.C., Apostolic Administrator of Gilbert Islands (Kiribati)

1920: Fr. Enrico Nollen, M.S.C., Prefect Apostolic of Dutch New Guinea (Indonesia)

1915: Fr. Matteo Neyens, M.S.C., Prefect Apostolic of Dutch New Guinea (Indonesia)

1915: Fr. Bruno Schinxe, M.S.C., Ecclesiastical Superior of Marshall Islands (Marshall Islands)

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