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Franciscus Kenninck served as the eighteenth Archbishop of Utrecht from 1920 to 1937.
Following the death of Gerardus Gul, Archbishop of Utrecht, in 1920, Kenninck was consecrated by Bishop Henricus Johannes Theodorus van Vlijmen of Haarlem, Bishop Edward Herzog of Bern, and Bishop Georg Moog of Bonn.
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