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.