Cornelius "Cor" Schilder, M.H.M. (born 19 September 1941) is an emeritus

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from the

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. He was the bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Ngong The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ngong ( la, Ngongen(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Ngong in the Ecclesiastical province of Nairobi in Kenya. History * 20 October 1959: Established as Apostolic Prefecture of Ngong from Metropolitan A ...

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from 2003 to 2009.

Biography

Cornelius Schilder was born on 19 September 1941 in

Westwoud Westwoud is a village in the Netherlands. It is located in the region of West Friesland in North Holland, about 4 kilometers northeast of Hoorn. The town is part of the municipality of Drechterland and has a population of 1,785. Westwoud r ...

in the

. He studied philosophy at Mill Hill College in

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, and later theology at Mill Hill College in

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. On 29 June 1968, he was ordained as priest in Westwoud. In 1971, he went to Kenya with the

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and worked in the dioceses Ngong and

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. In 2002, he was appointed Bishop of Ngong after

Colin Cameron Davies Colin Cameron Davies (10 June 1924 – 8 January 2017) was a Spanish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Davies was born in Las Palmas, Spain to Arthur and Ellen Mary (née Joyce) Davies, the third in the family of six children. He wa ...

retired. On 25 January 2003 he was consecrated as bishop. In 2009, he retired "due to health problem". Although highly esteemed, after contradicting allegations of

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of a boy, many years ago, and of which there was no proof, it is claimed that the

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induced the bishop when in his late sixties into retirement. Schilder currently does not celebrate masses in public and exercises no pastoral tasks. He lives with the Mill Hill Missionaries in

Oosterbeek Oosterbeek is a village in the eastern part of Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Renkum in the province of Gelderland, about west of Arnhem. The oldest part of Oosterbeek is the Benedendorp (Lower Village), on the northern bank o ...

. Graaf, P. de,
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, ''

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'', 1 March 2011. Retrieved on 1 March 2011.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schilder, Cornelius 1941 births Living people Dutch Roman Catholic missionaries 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Kenya People from Drechterland Roman Catholic missionaries in Kenya Dutch expatriates in Kenya Roman Catholic bishops of Ngong