Bishop Émile Jean Marie Henri Joseph Destombes, M.E.P. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia

Titular Bishop of Altava

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Aug 1935		Born
29 Jun 1961	25.8	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of La Société des Missions Etrangères
21 Dec 1961	26.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères
14 Apr 1997	61.6	Appointed	Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
14 Apr 1997	61.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Altava
5 Oct 1997	62.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Altava
14 Apr 2001	65.6	Succeeded	Vicar Apostolic of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
1 Oct 2010	75.1	Retired	Vicar Apostolic of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia
28 Jan 2016	80.4	Died	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phnom-Penh, Cambodia

MicroData Summary for Émile Jean Marie Henri Joseph Destombes
(WikiData: Q1419426)
Bishop Émile Jean Marie Henri Joseph Destombes M.E.P. (born 15 Aug 1935, died 28 Jan 2016) Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Phnom-Penh

Ad Limina - September 2007: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Roncq, Diocese of Lille, France
Ordained Deacon Foreign Missions, Chapel, Paris, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Bishop Centre paroissial, en plein air, Phnom-Penh, Vicariate Apostolic of Phnom-Penh
Death Place Phnom-Penh, Vicariate Apostolic of Phnom-Penh

a priest for 54.1 years
a bishop for 18.3 years

Ordained Deacon by:
Bishop Henri-Marie-Ernest-Désiré Pinault, M.E.P. †
Bishop of Chengdu [Chengtu]
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Yves-Marie Georges René Ramousse, M.E.P. †
Titular Bishop of Pisita
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Luigi Bressan
Titular Archbishop of Severiana
Bishop Joseph Banchong Aribarg †
Bishop of Nakhon Sawan

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Yves-Marie Georges René Ramousse, M.E.P. † (1963)
Titular Bishop of Pisita
Bishop Gustave-André-Ferdinand Raballand, M.E.P. † (1956)
Titular Bishop of Eguga
Bishop Charles-Joseph Lemaire, M.E.P. † (1939)
Titular Bishop of Otrus
Bishop Auguste-Ernest-Désiré-Marie Gaspais, M.E.P. † (1921)
Titular Bishop of Canopus
Bishop Gustave-Charles-Marie Mutel, M.E.P. † (1890)
Titular Bishop of Milo
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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Olivier Michel Marie Schmitthaeusler, M.E.P. (2010)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Roncq, Diocese of Lille, France
Ordained Deacon	Foreign Missions, Chapel, Paris, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Bishop	Centre paroissial, en plein air, Phnom-Penh, Vicariate Apostolic of Phnom-Penh
Death Place	Phnom-Penh, Vicariate Apostolic of Phnom-Penh

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 1 Oct 2010
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 150, Number 13,154
d: CB, 28 Jan 2016
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)
od/c0/loc: AJ, 3 Jul 2018

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