Joseph-Charles Cardinal Lefèbvre †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Bourges

Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Apr 1892		Born	Tourcoing
17 Dec 1921	29.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Poitiers, France
27 Jul 1938	46.3	Appointed	Bishop of Troyes, France
11 Oct 1938	46.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Troyes, France
17 Jun 1943	51.2	Appointed	Archbishop of Bourges, France
28 Mar 1960	68.0	Elevated to Cardinal
28 Mar 1960	68.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini
10 Oct 1969	77.5	Retired	Archbishop of Bourges, France
2 Apr 1973	81.0	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Bourges, France

Consistory - 1960: Created Cardinal
Second Vatican Council: Session One: Council Father
Conclave - 1963: Participated
Second Vatican Council: Session Two: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father

a priest for 51.3 years
a bishop for 34.5 years
a cardinal for 13.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Edouard-Gabriel Mesguen †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Joseph-Jean Heintz †
Bishop Louis Liagre †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Joseph-Charles Cardinal Lefèbvre † (1938)
Bishop Edouard-Gabriel Mesguen † (1934)
Bishop Adolphe-Yves-Marie Duparc † (1908)
Bishop Alcime-Armand-Pierre-Henri Gouraud † (1906)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Pierre-Abel-Louis Chappot de la Chanonie †
Archbishop Eugène Klein, M.S.C. †
Bishop Jean-Barthélemy-Marie de Cambourg †
Bishop Théophile Albert Cadoux, M.S.C. †
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Lucien-Sidroine Lebrun †
Bishop Louis-Sylvain Robin †

Source(s):

b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 1938, Number 77

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