Bishop Marius Besson †

Deceased

Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Freiburg)

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Jun 1876		Born	Torino, Italy
23 Jul 1899	23.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lausanne et Genève, Switzerland
7 May 1920	43.9	Appointed	Bishop of Lausanne et Genève, Switzerland
13 Jun 1920	44.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Lausanne et Genève, Switzerland
22 Feb 1945	68.7	Died	Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (Freiburg), Switzerland

a priest for 45.6 years
a bishop for 24.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Marius Besson † (1920)
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Heinrich Ritter, C.S.Sp. †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Louis-Justin Gumy, O.F.M. Cap. †

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