Apostolic Vicariate of Ravenstein-Megen
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The Apostolic Vicariate of Ravenstein-Megen was a short-lived pre-diocesan Latin
Catholic jurisdiction in a small southern part of the Netherlands
.
History
Established on 1803.03.22 as
Countship of Megen and the Land of Ravenstein
.
It was suppressed on 1853.03.04, its territory merged into the
Diocese of ’s-Hertogenbosch
.
Ordinaries
(all
Roman rite
)
- Apostolic Vicars of Ravenstein–Megen
- François-Antoine-Marie de Méan (1802.04.18 – death 1831.01.15); previously Mechlin(now Mechelen-Brussel, Belgium) (1817.07.28 – death 1831.01.15)
- Father Arnoldus Borret (1831 – death 1839)
- Father Henricus van der Velden (1839 – death 1841), concurrently Apostolic Vicar of Grave–Nijmegen(Netherlands) (1840 – 1841)
- Archbishop-Bishop(first proper episcopal Ordinary) of the thus-elevated bishopric ’s-Hertogenbosch (1853.03.04 – death 1877.10.16)
