Leon Lemmens

His Excellency
Leon Lemmens
Auxiliary Bishop of Vlaams-Brabant & Mechelen
Province Belgium
Diocese Archdiocese of Mechelens-Brussels
Installed 3 April 2011
Predecessor Jozef De Kesel
Orders
Ordination 10 July 1977
Consecration 3 April 2011
Personal details
Born (1954-03-16) 16 March 1954
Boorsem
Nationality Belgian
Denomination Roman Catholic
Residence Mechelen
Alma mater KU Leuven, Pontifical Gregorian University
Motto Populum humilem et pauperem (A humble and poor people)
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Leon Lemmens (born March 16, 1954 in Boorsem, Maasmechelen, Belgium) is a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Belgium.

Lemmens was ordained a priest on July 10, 1977. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop to the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel by Pope Benedict XVI on February 22, 2011 and ordained bishop on April 3, 2011.[1]

Biography

Lemmens followed high school at the Klein Seminarie in Sint-Truiden. He entered seminary in Sint-Truiden (1971-1976) and was ordained to the priesthood to the Diocese of Hasselt on 10 July 1977. He obtained a bachelor in theology at the KU Leuven (1976) and studies moral theology in Rome. He obtained a licentiate in moral theology (1979) and became doctor in theology in 1989.[2]

He worked as a parish priest in Genk (1981-1984). In 1984 he became professor at the seminary in Hasselt. From 1986 to 1997 he was a member of the Interdiocesan Commission on Liturgy and from 1990 to 1995 he was responsible for vocations. In 1994-1995 he took charge of the organisation of the meeting of young people with the pope in Brussels.[3]

In 2004 he became rector of the Romanian College in Rome and in 2005 he was an official at the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches of the Roman Curia,.[4]

Leon Lemmens has been a member of the Community of Sant'Egidio since 1977.[5]

Auxiliary bishop

On 22 February 2011, pope Benedict XVI appointed Lemmens as auxiliary bishop in the archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels, with the responsibility for the vicariate Vlaams-Brabant & Mechelen. He is a Municipa.[6][7]

He was consecrated on 3 April 2011 in the National Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Koekelberg by archbishop André-Joseph Léonard.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Catholic Hierarchy: Leon Lemmens retrieved October 2, 2011
  2. ↑ Kerknet retrieved September 1, 2014
  3. ↑ Kerknet retrieved September 1, 2014
  4. ↑ Kerknet retrieved September 1, 2014
  5. ↑ Kerknet retrieved September 1, 2014
  6. ↑ Kerknet retrieved September 1, 2014
  7. ↑ Kerknet retrieved September 1, 2014
  8. ↑ Kerknet retrieved September 1, 2014
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