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Roman Catholic Diocese of Maastricht

January 01, 1970

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Maastricht (Latin Traiectum ad Mosam) was a Roman Catholic jurisdiction in parts of present Netherlands (including the see Maastricht) and Belgium, which has been nominally revived as a Latin titular bishopric.

History edit

Established in 530 as Diocese of Maastricht on the territory of the suppressed Diocese of Tongeren and Maastricht (thus renamed to acknowledge Maastricht as its secondary see circa 380).

Suppressed in 720, its territory being used to establish the Roman Catholic Diocese of Liège, which also become a great prince-bishopric within the Holy Roman Empire.[1][2]

Ordinaries edit

Various terms of office are disputed, some bishops may be legendary

Titular see edit

In 1971 the diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Titular see of Episcopal rank.

It has had the following incumbents :

  • Petrus Joannes Antonius Moors (1970.12.29 – death 1980.09.16), emeritate as former Bishop of Roermond (Netherlands) (1959.01.26 – retired 1970.12.29)
  • Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen (1993.04.03 – 1996.05.24), as former Bishop of above Roermond (1972.01.20 – resigned 1993.01.23); however later Bishop of Reykjavík (Iceland) (1996.05.24 – retired 2007.10.30); died 2013
  • Marcos Aurelio Pérez Caicedo (2006.06.10 – 2012.02.10) as Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador) (2006.06.10 – 2012.02.10); later Bishop of Babahoyo (Ecuador) (2012.02.10 – 2016.06.20), also Apostolic Administrator of Guaranda (Ecuador) (2014 – 2014.06.24), Vice-President of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador (2014.05.08 – ...), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Cuenca (Ecuador) (2016.06.20 – ...)
  • Waldemar Stanisław Sommertag (2018.02.18 - ), Apostolic Nuncio to Nicaragua.[6]

See also edit

Servatius of Tongeren

References edit

  1. ^ a b Catholic Herald website, Maastricht: Much more than we might think, article by Ben Stephens dated April 15, 2023
  2. ^ a b New Advent website, St. Hubert
  3. ^ University of Liège website, The relics of Saint Perpète (Dinant, Belgium), bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht between the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 7th century, in the light of anthropobiologival, archaeological and written data, by Wymmersch, Guillaume and Polet, Caroline (2021)
  4. ^ Riché, Pierre (1993). The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8122-1342-3.
  5. ^ Saint for a Minute website, Saint Theodard of Maastricht
  6. ^ Vatican Press Office website, Resignations and Appointments, 15.02.2018

External links edit

  • GCatholic
  • Livius website Traiectum ad Mosam (Maastricht)
  • Livius website Servatius of Tongeren

January 01, 1970
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