Bishop Léon-Toussaint-Jean-Clément Chambon, O.F.M. Cap. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Bossangoa, Central African Republic

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Oct 1905		Born
20 Aug 1933	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
14 Dec 1959	54.1	Appointed	Prefect of Bossangoa, Central African Republic
16 Jan 1964	58.2	Appointed	Bishop of Bossangoa, Central African Republic
1 May 1964	58.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Bossangoa, Central African Republic
22 Apr 1978	72.4	Resigned	Bishop of Bossangoa, Central African Republic
9 Oct 1987	81.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Bossangoa, Central African Republic

MicroData Summary for Léon-Toussaint-Jean-Clément Chambon
(WikiData: Q30166322)
Bishop Léon-Toussaint-Jean-Clément Chambon O.F.M. Cap. (born 25 Oct 1905, died 9 Oct 1987) Bishop Emeritus of Bossangoa

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-Pierre-du-Champ, Diocese of Le Puy-en-Velay, France
Ordained Bishop Bossangoa, Diocese of Bossangoa
Death Place Besançon, Archdiocese of Besançon, France

a priest for 54.1 years
a bishop for 23.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Bernardin Gantin †
Archbishop of Cotonou
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alphonse-Célestin-Basile Baud, O.F.M. Cap. †
Bishop of Berbérati
Bishop Samuel-Louis-Marie-Antoine Gaumain, O.F.M. Cap. †
Bishop of Moundou

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Bernardin Gantin † (1957)
Archbishop of Cotonou
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Sergio Adolfo Govi, O.F.M. Cap. † (1975)

Source(s):

c2+: LC
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Deceased Cardinals (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1964, Number 41

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