Bishop Louis Liagre †

Deceased

Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Sep 1883		Born
5 Jun 1909	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Lille, France
7 Mar 1938	54.5	Appointed	Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France
4 May 1938	54.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France
10 Aug 1955	71.9	Died	Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes), France

MicroData Summary
Louis Liagre
Bishop Louis Liagre
(born 5 Sep 1883, died 10 Aug 1955)
Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes)

Event Place
Birth Place Tourcoing, Archdiocese of Cambrai
Ordained Bishop Sacré Cœur, Church, Tourcoing, Diocese of Lille
Death Place La Ropchelle, Diocese of La Rochelle (-Saintes)

a priest for 46.1 years
a bishop for 17.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Achille Cardinal Liénart †
Bishop of Lille
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Maurice Feltin †
Archbishop of Bordeaux (-Bazas)
Bishop Henri-Édouard Dutoit †
Bishop of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Achille Cardinal Liénart † (1928)
Bishop of Lille
Bishop Charles-Albert-Joseph Lecomte † (1921)
Bishop of Amiens
Bishop Héctor Raphaël Quilliet † (1914)
Bishop of Lille
Archbishop Jean-Arthur Chollet † (1910)
Archbishop of Cambrai
Archbishop Louis-Ernest Dubois † (1901)
Archbishop of Bourges
Bishop Marie-Prosper-Adolphe de Bonfils † (1898)
Bishop of Le Mans
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Joseph-Charles Cardinal Lefèbvre † (1938)
Joseph-Marie-Eugène Cardinal Martin † (1940)
Bishop Henri-Marie-Joseph Pinson † (1943)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 7471732
WikiData: Q64747030

Source(s):

b/c2+: LC
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1938, Number 35

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