Bishop Michel-Joseph-Gérard Gagnon, M. Afr. †

Deceased

Bishop of Laghouat, Algeria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Mar 1933		Born
13 Aug 1951	18.3	Entered	Member of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers)
27 Jun 1955	22.2	Professed	Member of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers)
1 Apr 1956	23.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers)
28 Mar 1980	47.0	Appointed	Bishop of Djibouti
4 May 1980	47.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Djibouti
15 Aug 1980	47.3	Installed	Bishop of Djibouti
3 Jul 1987	54.2	Resigned	Bishop of Djibouti
4 Feb 1991	57.8	Appointed	Bishop of Laghouat, Algeria
1 Jun 2004	71.1	Died	Bishop of Laghouat, Algeria

MicroData Summary for Michel-Joseph-Gérard Gagnon
(VIAF: 49369572; WikiData: Q16027532)
Bishop Michel-Joseph-Gérard Gagnon M. Afr. (born 23 Mar 1933, died 1 Jun 2004) Bishop of Laghouat

Event Place
Birth Place Québec, Archdiocese of Québec, Canada
Ordained Priest Carthage, Archdiocese of Carthage, Tunisia
Ordained Bishop Open Air, Esplanade du Palais du Peuple, Kinshasa, Archdiocese of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Death Place El Bayadth

a priest for 48.1 years
a bishop for 24.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope John Paul II
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Agnelo Cardinal Rossi †
Cardinal-Priest of Gran Madre di Dio
Joseph-Albert Cardinal Malula †
Archbishop of Kinshasa

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Pope John Paul II (1958)
(St. Karol Józef Wojtyła †)
Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak † (1933)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop Bolesław Twardowski † (1919)
Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop St. Józef Bilczewski † (1901)
Archbishop of Lviv
Bishop Jan Maurycy Pawel Puzyna z Kosielsko † (1886)
Bishop of Kraków
Mieczyslaw Halka Cardinal Ledóchowski † (1861)
Archbishop of Gniezno e Poznań
Camillo Cardinal Di Pietro † (1839)
Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Chiarissimo Cardinal Falconieri Mellini † (1826)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Leo XII (1794)
(Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga †)
Henry Benedict Mary Clement Cardinal Stuart of York † (1758)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
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 Augustin Traoré (2004)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Québec, Archdiocese of Québec, Canada
Ordained Priest	Carthage, Archdiocese of Carthage, Tunisia
Ordained Bishop	Open Air, Esplanade du Palais du Peuple, Kinshasa, Archdiocese of Kinshasa, Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Death Place	El Bayadth

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 177, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 60, Number 4,572
op.loc: CB, 8 May 2021
b: Dictionnaire Biographique des Évèques Catholiques du Canada, Page 532, and Page 533

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