Bishop Claude Jean Pierre Dagens

Bishop Emeritus of Angoulême, France

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
20 May 1940		Born
4 Oct 1970	30.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bordeaux (-Bazas), France
3 Jul 1987	47.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Poitiers, France
3 Jul 1987	47.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Vulturaria
20 Sep 1987	47.3	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Vulturaria
15 Jun 1993	53.0	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Angoulême, France
22 Dec 1993	53.5	Succeeded	Bishop of Angoulême, France
9 Nov 2015	75.4	Retired	Bishop of Angoulême, France

MicroData Summary
Claude Jean Pierre Dagens
Bishop Claude Jean Pierre Dagens
(born 20 May 1940)
Bishop Emeritus of Angoulême

Ad Limina - February 2004: Bishop
Ad Limina - September 2012: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Caudéran
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Bordeaux, Archdiocese of Bordeaux (-Bazas)

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Angoulême.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Marius-Félix-Antoine Maziers †
Archbishop of Bordeaux (-Bazas)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop André Charles Collini †
Archbishop of Toulouse (-Narbonne-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux)
Bishop Joseph Jean Marie Rozier †
Bishop of Poitiers

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Marius-Félix-Antoine Maziers † (1960)
Archbishop of Bordeaux (-Bazas)
Archbishop Gabriel Auguste François Marty † (1952)
Titular Archbishop of Hemesa
Bishop Marcel-Marie-Joseph-Henri-Paul Dubois † (1948)
Bishop of Rodez (-Vabres)
Archbishop Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente † (1918)
Bishop of Le Mans
Louis-Ernest Cardinal Dubois † (1901)
Archbishop of Rouen
Bishop Marie-Prosper-Adolphe de Bonfils † (1898)
Bishop of Le Mans
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jacques André Blaquart (2006)
Bishop Hervé Marie Michel Gosselin (2016)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/139011
VIAF: 61544341
WikiData: Q516442

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 105, Number 9,160
r: Bollettino, 9 Nov 2015

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