Bishop André-Pierre Duirat, S.M.A. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 May 1908		Born
27 Oct 1933	25.4	Professed	Member of Society of African Missions
23 Dec 1933	25.5	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Society of African Missions
6 Jan 1934	25.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of African Missions
26 Oct 1951	43.4	Appointed	Prefect of Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire
4 Jul 1956	48.0	Appointed	Bishop of Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire
8 Dec 1956	48.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire
17 May 1973	64.9	Resigned	Bishop of Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire
29 Dec 1998	90.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire

MicroData Summary
André-Pierre Duirat
Bishop André-Pierre Duirat S.M.A.
(born 30 May 1908, died 29 Dec 1998)
Bishop Emeritus of Bouaké

Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Saint-Bonnet-de-Joux, Diocese of Autun (-Châlon-sur-Saône-Mâcon), France
Ordained Bishop Fourvière, Basilica, Lyon, Archdiocese of Lyon (-Vienne), France
Death Place Notre-Dame de Baillarguet, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France

a priest for 64.9 years
a bishop for 42.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Jean Delay †
Titular Archbishop of Pompeiopolis in Paphlagonia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Boivin, S.M.A. †
Archbishop of Abidjan
Bishop Claude Marie Joseph Dupuy †
Titular Bishop of Selia

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Jean Delay † (1928)
Titular Archbishop of Pompeiopolis in Paphlagonia
Louis-Joseph Cardinal Maurin † (1911)
Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne)
Paulin-Pierre Cardinal Andrieu † (1901)
Archbishop of Bordeaux
Archbishop Jean-Augustin Germain † (1897)
Archbishop of Toulouse (-Narbonne)
Bishop Félix-Auguste Béguinot † (1896)
Bishop of Nîmes (-Uzès e Alès)
Jean-Pierre Cardinal Boyer † (1878)
Archbishop of Bourges
Archbishop Théodore-Augustin Forcade, M.E.P. † (1847)
Archbishop of Aix (-Arles-Embrun)
Bishop Giovanni Domenico Rizzolati, O.F.M. Ref. † (1840)
Titular Bishop of Arad
Bishop Joachin (Gioacchino Domenico) Salvetti, O.F.M. Obs. † (1817)
Titular Bishop of Euroea in Epiro
Bishop Cajetan Pires Pireira, C.M. † (1806)
Bishop of Nanking [Nanjing]
Bishop Alexandre de Gouvea (Gouveia), T.O.R. † (1783)
Bishop of Peking [Beijing]
Archbishop Francisco da Assumpção e Brito, O.E.S.A. † (1773)
Archbishop of Goa
João Cosme Cardinal da Cunha (de Nossa Senhora da Porta), C.R.S.A. † (1746)
Archbishop of Évora
Tomás Cardinal de Almeida † (1707)
Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon}
Bishop Nuno da Cunha e Ataíde † (1706)
Titular Bishop of Targa
Bishop Álvaro de Abranches e Noronha † (1694)
Bishop of Leiria
Bishop João de Sousa † (1684)
Bishop of Porto
Archbishop Veríssimo de Lencastre † (1671)
Archbishop Emeritus of Braga
Bishop Francesco Ravizza † (1667)
Titular Bishop of Sidon
Neri Cardinal Corsini † (1652)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Fabio Cardinal Chigi † (1635)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo
Bishop Miguel Juan Balaguer Camarasa, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1635)
Bishop of Malta
Francesco Maria Cardinal Brancaccio † (1627)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Cosimo Cardinal de Torres † (1621)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio
Maffeo (Virginio Romolo) Cardinal Barberini † (1604)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio
Patriarch Fabio Biondi (Blondus de Montealto) † (1588)
Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
Scipione Cardinal Gonzaga † (1585)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo
Iñigo Cardinal Avalos de Aragón, O.S. † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
Pope Pius V (1556)
(St. Antonio (Michele) Ghislieri, O.P. †)
Giovanni Michele Cardinal Saraceni † (1536)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Antonio Cardinal Sanseverino, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1531)
Archbishop of Taranto
Pope Clement VII (1517)
(Giulio de’ Medici †)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Principal Consecrator of:
Archbishop Vital Komenan Yao † (1973)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bernardin Cardinal Gantin † (1957)
Archbishop Auguste Nobou † (1972)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q13420398

Source(s):

c2+: LC
ob/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1956, Number 110
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 154, Necrology (back)
b: SMA Nos Défunts, 2 Sep 2023
ab: Acta Apostolicæ Sedis, Volume 44, Page 192

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