Bishop Jean Larregain, M.E.P. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic of Yünnanfu, China

Titular Bishop of Arycanda

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Jan 1888		Born
1907	18.9	Professed	Member of La Société des Missions Etrangères
8 Mar 1913	25.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères
13 Jun 1939	51.4	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Yünnanfu, China
13 Jun 1939	51.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Arycanda
29 Oct 1939	51.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Arycanda
2 May 1942	54.3	Died	Vicar Apostolic of Yünnanfu, China

MicroData Summary
Jean Larregain
Bishop Jean Larregain M.E.P.
(born 6 Jan 1888, died 2 May 1942)
Vicar Apostolic of Yünnanfu

Event Place
Birth Place Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, Diocese of Bayonne, France
Ordained Bishop San Pietro, Basilica, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Yunnanfu, Vicariate Apostolic of Yünnanfu

a priest for 29.1 years
a bishop for 2.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Pius XII
(Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini †
Titular Archbishop of Theodosiopolis in Arcadia
Archbishop Henri Streicher, M. Afr. †
Titular Archbishop of Brysis

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope Pius XII (1917)
(Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †)
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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

External Link(s):

VIAF: 193762947
WikiData: Q16027402

Source(s):

c3+: LC
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1939, Number 62
b: Bishops-In-China.com, 17 Jan 2020

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