Born in Hoensbroek, The Netherlands, Monsignor Eugenius Joseph Hubert Lebouille entered the Congregation of the Mission at an early age, was ordained to the priesthood on May 28, 1904, and moved to China as a missionary, where he was eventually named Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Yüngpingfu, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Conana on November 18, 1928, from Bishop Ernest François Geurts CM., assisted by Bishops Franciscus Hubertus Schraven CM., and Jean de Vienne de Hautefeuille of the same Congregation.
Succeeding to the Vicariate following the death of Msgr. Guerts on July 21, 1940, at 68 years of age, he was named its first Ordinary when the Vicariate was erected to a Diocese by the Holy See on April 11, 1946. After being interned in a concentration camp, he was forced to resign his office on June 21, 1948. Returning to his native country, he was named Bishop of the Titular See of Calama. Lebouille passed away in a sanatorium in Heerlen on May 27, 1957, aged 79, and following the celebration of a funeral Mass at the church of St. Jan in his native Hoensbroek, was laid to rest in the grounds of the latter, where some 20 old tombstones lie, in a vault specially constructed to house his remains.
The Diocese of Yongping has, since then, remained vacant.
Succeeding to the Vicariate following the death of Msgr. Guerts on July 21, 1940, at 68 years of age, he was named its first Ordinary when the Vicariate was erected to a Diocese by the Holy See on April 11, 1946. After being interned in a concentration camp, he was forced to resign his office on June 21, 1948. Returning to his native country, he was named Bishop of the Titular See of Calama. Lebouille passed away in a sanatorium in Heerlen on May 27, 1957, aged 79, and following the celebration of a funeral Mass at the church of St. Jan in his native Hoensbroek, was laid to rest in the grounds of the latter, where some 20 old tombstones lie, in a vault specially constructed to house his remains.
The Diocese of Yongping has, since then, remained vacant.
Born in Hoensbroek, The Netherlands, Monsignor Eugenius Joseph Hubert Lebouille entered the Congregation of the Mission at an early age, was ordained to the priesthood on May 28, 1904, and moved to China as a missionary, where he was eventually named Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Yüngpingfu, receiving his episcopal consecration with the Titular See of Conana on November 18, 1928, from Bishop Ernest François Geurts CM., assisted by Bishops Franciscus Hubertus Schraven CM., and Jean de Vienne de Hautefeuille of the same Congregation.
Succeeding to the Vicariate following the death of Msgr. Guerts on July 21, 1940, at 68 years of age, he was named its first Ordinary when the Vicariate was erected to a Diocese by the Holy See on April 11, 1946. After being interned in a concentration camp, he was forced to resign his office on June 21, 1948. Returning to his native country, he was named Bishop of the Titular See of Calama. Lebouille passed away in a sanatorium in Heerlen on May 27, 1957, aged 79, and following the celebration of a funeral Mass at the church of St. Jan in his native Hoensbroek, was laid to rest in the grounds of the latter, where some 20 old tombstones lie, in a vault specially constructed to house his remains.
The Diocese of Yongping has, since then, remained vacant.
Succeeding to the Vicariate following the death of Msgr. Guerts on July 21, 1940, at 68 years of age, he was named its first Ordinary when the Vicariate was erected to a Diocese by the Holy See on April 11, 1946. After being interned in a concentration camp, he was forced to resign his office on June 21, 1948. Returning to his native country, he was named Bishop of the Titular See of Calama. Lebouille passed away in a sanatorium in Heerlen on May 27, 1957, aged 79, and following the celebration of a funeral Mass at the church of St. Jan in his native Hoensbroek, was laid to rest in the grounds of the latter, where some 20 old tombstones lie, in a vault specially constructed to house his remains.
The Diocese of Yongping has, since then, remained vacant.
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