Archbishop Emile-Joseph Legal, O.M.I. †

Deceased

Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 Oct 1849		Born
29 Jun 1874	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Nantes, France
1880²	30.2	Professed	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate
29 Mar 1897	47.4	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Saint-Albert, Alberta, Canada
29 Mar 1897	47.4	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Pogla
17 Jun 1897	47.6	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Pogla
3 Jun 1902	52.6	Succeeded	Bishop of Saint-Albert, Alberta, Canada
30 Nov 1912	63.1	Appointed	Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
10 Mar 1920	70.4	Died	Archbishop of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Emile-Joseph Legal
(VIAF: 289577277; WikiData: Q3588289)
Archbishop Emile-Joseph Legal O.M.I. (born 9 Oct 1849, died 10 Mar 1920) Archbishop of Edmonton

Event Place
Birth Place Saint-Jean-de-Boisseau, France
Ordained Bishop St. Albert, Diocese of Saint-Albert, Alberta
Death Place Edmonton, Archdiocese of Edmonton, Alberta

a priest for 45.6 years
a bishop for 22.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Félix Fournier †
Bishop of Nantes
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin, O.M.I. †
Bishop of Saint-Albert, Alberta
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Pierre-Paul Durieu, O.M.I. †
Bishop of New Westminster, British Columbia
Bishop Isidore Clut, O.M.I. †
Titular Bishop of Arindela

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin, O.M.I. † (1859)
Bishop of Saint-Albert, Alberta
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:
Bishop Joseph-Marie Leray, M.S.C. † (1898)
Bishop Émile-Marie Bunoz, O.M.I. † (1917)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Saint-Jean-de-Boisseau, France
Ordained Bishop	St. Albert, Diocese of Saint-Albert, Alberta
Death Place	Edmonton, Archdiocese of Edmonton, Alberta

Source(s):

c2+: LC
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 86, and Page 461
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 43
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1897, Number 37
c1: CB, 12 Apr 2019

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