Bishop Paul Bassim, O.C.D. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Beirut {Bairut}, Lebanon

Titular Bishop of Laodicea ad Libanum

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
14 Nov 1922		Born
29 Jun 1946	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Discalced Carmelites
8 Sep 1974	51.8	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Beirut {Bairut}, Lebanon
8 Sep 1974	51.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Laodicea ad Libanum
24 Nov 1974	52.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Laodicea ad Libanum
30 Jul 1999	76.7	Retired	Vicar Apostolic of Beirut {Bairut}, Lebanon
21 Aug 2012	89.7	Died	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Beirut {Bairut}, Lebanon

MicroData Summary for Paul Bassim
(WikiData: Q1232839)
Bishop Paul Bassim O.C.D. (born 14 Nov 1922, died 21 Aug 2012) Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Beirut {Bairut}

Event Place
Birth Place Zghorta
Ordained Bishop St. Louis, Church, Beirut, Vicariate Apostolic of Beirut {Bairut}

a priest for 66.1 years
a bishop for 37.7 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Alfredo Bruniera †
Titular Archbishop of Claudiopolis in Honoriade
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir †
Titular Bishop of Tarsus dei Maroniti
Bishop Bonaventure Akiki, O.F.M. †
Titular Bishop of Larissa in Syria

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Alfredo Bruniera † (1955)
Titular Archbishop of Claudiopolis in Honoriade
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
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:
Archbishop Paul Dahdah, O.C.D. (1983)
Archbishop Jean Benjamin Sleiman, O.C.D. (2001)

Source(s):

d: CB, 22 Aug 2012
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 212, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 27, Number 1,523

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