Bishop John Stephen (Jean Étienne) Bazin †

Deceased

Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana, USA

Motto: Post Tenebras Spero Lucem

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Oct 1796		Born
22 Jul 1822	25.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Alabama and the Floridas, USA
23 Apr 1847	50.5	Appointed	Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana, USA
24 Oct 1847	51.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana, USA
23 Apr 1848	51.5	Died	Bishop of Vincennes, Indiana, USA

MicroData Summary
John Stephen (Jean Étienne) Bazin
Bishop John Stephen (Jean Étienne) Bazin
(born 15 Oct 1796, died 23 Apr 1848)
Bishop of Vincennes

Event Place
Birth Place Duerne, Archdiocese of Lyon, France
Ordained Priest Paris, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Vincennes, Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana
Death Place Vincennes, Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana
Buried Place (Original) Crypt, Cathedral, Vincennes, Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana

a priest for 25.7 years
a bishop for .4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Etienne-Parfait-Martin Maurel de Mons †
Bishop of Avignon
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Michael Portier †
Bishop of Mobile, Alabama
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop John Baptist Purcell †
Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio
Bishop Célestine René Laurent Guynemer de la Hailandière †
Bishop Emeritus of Vincennes, Indiana

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Michael Portier † (1826)
Bishop of Mobile, Alabama
Bishop Joseph Rosati, C.M. † (1824)
Titular Bishop of Tanagra
Bishop Louis-Guillaume-Valentin Dubourg, P.S.S. † (1815)
Bishop of Louisiana and the Two Floridas (Saint Louis of New Orleans)
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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

Assisted:
Bishop Pierre-Jean-Mathias Loras † (1837)

External Link(s):

Find a Grave (Grave): 53091542
WikiData: Q6259016

Source(s):

b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 592
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1847, Number 39
c1: CB, 14 May 2022

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