Archbishop Gérard Denis Auguste Defois

Bishop Emeritus of Lille

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Jan 1931		Born	Nueil-sur-Layon
11 Oct 1956	25.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Angers, France
26 Jul 1990	59.6	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Sens (-Auxerre), France
6 Oct 1990	59.8	Ordained Bishop	Coadjutor Archbishop of Sens (-Auxerre), France
21 Dec 1990	60.0	Succeeded	Archbishop of Sens (-Auxerre), France
4 Sep 1995	64.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Reims, France
2 Jul 1998	67.5	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title) of Lille, France
1 Feb 2008	77.1	Retired	Bishop of Lille, France

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Lille.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Albert Florent Augustin Cardinal Decourtray †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Eugène-Marie Ernoult †
Bishop Jean Pierre Marie Orchampt

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Gérard Denis Auguste Defois (1990)
Albert Florent Augustin Cardinal Decourtray † (1971)
Bishop Adrien-Edmond-Maurice Gand † (1964)
Achille Cardinal Liènart † (1928)
Bishop Charles-Albert-Joseph Lecomte † (1921)
Archbishop Hector-Raphaël Quilliet † (1914)
Archbishop Jean-Arthur Chollet † (1910)
Louis-Ernest Cardinal Dubois † (1901)
Bishop Marie-Prosper-Adolphe de Bonfils † (1898)
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Joseph Hippolyte Cardinal Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (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 Jean-Luc Brunin
Archbishop Christophe Dufour
Bishop Pascal Michel Ghislain Delannoy

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