Roman Catholic Diocese of Maastricht
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
- Falco (c.498-c.512)
- Domitian of Huy (?-560)
- Saint Monulphus (549-588 or 558 – 597), probably moved the see to Maastricht
- Saint Gondulphus of Maastricht (589-614?)
- Saint Eberigisil (Ebregise) ? (614-627)
- Saint Bishop Perpete (? – ?)[3]
- Saint John I Agnus (627–647)
- Saint Amand (647–650)
- Remaclus (650–662)[4]
- Saint Theodard (662-669 or 669 – 670)[5]
- Saint Lambert (669-705 or later),[1] patron saint of the diocese
- Saint Hubert (705 or before - 727),[2] patron saint of hunters and of the city
Titular see
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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年12月29日 – death 1980年09月16日), emeritate as former Bishop of Roermond (Netherlands) (1959年01月26日 – retired 1970年12月29日)
- Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen (1993年04月03日 – 1996年05月24日), as former Bishop of above Roermond (1972年01月20日 – resigned 1993年01月23日); however later Bishop of Reykjavík (Iceland) (1996年05月24日 – retired 2007年10月30日); died 2013
- Marcos Aurelio Pérez Caicedo (2006年06月10日 – 2012年02月10日) as Auxiliary Bishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador) (2006年06月10日 – 2012年02月10日); later Bishop of Babahoyo (Ecuador) (2012年02月10日 – 2016年06月20日), also Apostolic Administrator of Guaranda (Ecuador) (2014 – 2014年06月24日), vice-president of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador (2014年05月08日 – ...), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Cuenca (Ecuador) (2016年06月20日 – ...)
- Waldemar Stanisław Sommertag (2018年02月18日 - ), Apostolic Nuncio to Nicaragua.[6]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ a b Catholic Herald website, Maastricht: Much more than we might think, article by Ben Stephens dated April 15, 2023
- ^ a b New Advent website, St. Hubert
- ^ 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)
- ^ Riché, Pierre (1993). The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-8122-1342-3.
- ^ Saint for a Minute website, Saint Theodard of Maastricht
- ^ 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
