Bishop Alain-Sébastien Le Breton, S.M.M. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Toamasina

Titular Bishop of Salona

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
4 Nov 1888		Born	Plobannalec, France
1 Jan 1918	29.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of the Company of Mary
8 Oct 1935	46.9	Appointed	Prefect of Vatomandry, Madagascar
25 May 1939	50.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Hypselis
25 May 1939	50.6	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Tamatave, Madagascar
7 Oct 1939	50.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Hypselis
14 Sep 1955	66.9	Appointed	Bishop of Toamasina, Madagascar
15 Mar 1957	68.4	Resigned	Bishop of Toamasina, Madagascar
15 Mar 1957	68.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Salona
16 Dec 1964	76.1	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Toamasina, Madagascar

a priest for 47.0 years
a bishop for 25.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Adolphe-Yves-Marie Duparc †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Hippolyte Tréhiou †
Bishop Auguste-Joseph-Marie Cogneau †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Alain-Sébastien Le Breton, S.M.M. † (1939)
Bishop Adolphe-Yves-Marie Duparc † (1908)
Bishop Alcime-Armand-Pierre-Henri Gouraud † (1906)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal 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 Jules-Joseph Puset, P.S.S. †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Edmond-Marie-Jean Wolff, C.S.Sp. †
Bishop Edouard Rostaing, M.S. †
Bishop Claude Rolland, M.S. †

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