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DIOCESE OF LIÈGE (Dioecesis Leodiensis)

Country : Belgium
Denomination : Roman Catholic

Established : 344 as Diocese of Tongeren
Renamed 484 to Diocese of Maastricht
Renamed 720 to Diocese of Liège
Renamed 1921 to Diocese of Liège, Eupen et Malmédy
Renamed 1925 to Diocese of Liège

Official blazon

Origin/meaning

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The arms in the Wapen- en Vlaggenboek van Gerrit Hesman (1708)

Arms of Bishops

Albert Cuyck (1194-1200)
Hugo de Pierrepont (1200-1229)
Jean d’Eppé de Rumigny (1229-1238)
Guillaume de Savoie (1238-1239)
Robert de Thourotte (1240-1246)
Hendrik van Gelre (1247-1274)
Jean d'Enghien (1274-1281)
Jan van Vlaanderen (1282-1292)
Hugues de Châlons (1296-1301)
Adolf von Waldeck (1301-1302)
Thibaut de Bar (1303-1312)
Adolf von der Mark (1313-1344)
Engelbert von der Mark (1345-1363)
Jan van Arkel (1364-1378)
Arnold van Horne (1378-1389)
Johann von Bayern (1389–1418)
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Johannes von Wallenrode (1418–1419)
Johann von Heinsberg (1419–1455)
Luis de Bourbon (1456–1482)
Johan van Horne (1482–1506)
Erard von der Mark (1506–1538)
Cornelis van Glymes van Bergen (1538–1544)
Georg von Österreich (1544–1557)
Robert van Glymes van Bergen (1557–1563)
Gerard van Groesbeek (1563–1580)
Ernst von Bayern (1581-1612)
Ferdinand von Bayern (1612–1650)
Maximilian Heinrich von Bayern (1650–1688)
Johann Ludwig von Elderen (1688–1694)
Joseph Clemens von Bayern (1694–1723)
George Lodewijk van Bergen (1724–1743)
Johann Theodor von Bayern (1744–1763)
Charles Nicolas Alexandre d’Oultremont (1763–1771)
Franz Karl von Velbrück (1772–1784)
Cesarius Constantinus Franciscus van Hoensbroeck-Oost (1784–1792)
François Antoine Marie Constantin de Méan et de Beaurieux (1792–1793)
Jean-Évangéliste Zäpffel (1802–1808)
François Antoine Lejéas (1811-1815)
Cornelis Richard Anton van Bommel (1829–1852)
Théodore Alexis Joseph de Montpellier (1852–1879)
Victor-Joseph Doutreloux (1879–1901)
Martin-Hubert Rutten (1902–1927)
Louis-Joseph Kerkhofs (1927–1961)
Guillaume-Marie van Zuylen (1961–1986)
Albert Jean Charles Ghislain Houssiau (1986-2001)
Aloys Jousten (2001-2013)
Jean-Pierre Delville (2013-present)

Arms of AuxiliaryBishops

Johan Merchteren (1452-1472)
Libert van Broechem (1470-1506)

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