Joseph Frans Lescrauwaet Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:The Most Reverend
Joseph Frans Lescrauwaet, M.S.C.
Titular bishop of Turres Concordiae
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese:Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht
Diocese:Roman Catholic Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam
See:Titular See of Turres Concordiae
Term:1983 - 2013
Predecessor:André Bernard Michel Quélen
Successor:Salvatore Angerami
Ordination:September 12, 1948
Consecration:January 14, 1984
Consecrated By:Henricus Bomers, C.M., Hubertus Ernst, Johannes Antonius de Kok
Motto:Redite ad Cor (Return to the Heart)
Birth Date:19 June 1923
Birth Place:Amsterdam, Netherlands
Death Place:Tilburg, Netherlands
Nationality:Dutch
Buried:Orthen, Netherlands

Joseph Frans Lescrauwaet, M.S.C. (19 June 1923 – 19 November 2013) was a Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church.

Lescrauwaet was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands and was ordained a priest on 12 September 1948 from religious order of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Lescrauwaet was appointed auxiliary bishop of Diocese of Haarlem on 19 October 1983 as well as Titular Bishop of Turres Concordiae and was ordained bishop on 14 January 1984. Lescrauwaet resigned as auxiliary bishop of Haarlem on 22 March 1995.

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