Bishop Prosper-Amable Berthet †

Deceased

Bishop of Gap, France

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Feb 1838		Born
23 Jun 1861	23.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Gap, France
24 Apr 1889	51.1	Selected	Bishop of Gap, France
27 May 1889	51.2	Confirmed	Bishop of Gap, France
1 Aug 1889	51.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Gap, France
25 Oct 1914	76.6	Died	Bishop of Gap, France

MicroData Summary
Prosper-Amable Berthet
Bishop Prosper-Amable Berthet
(born 17 Feb 1838, died 25 Oct 1914)
Bishop of Gap

Event Place
Birth Place La Grave
Ordained Bishop Gap, Diocese of Gap
Death Place Gap, Diocese of Gap
Buried Place (Original) Cathedral, Gap, Diocese of Gap

a priest for 53.3 years
a bishop for 25.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Aimé-Victor-François Cardinal Guilbert †
Archbishop of Bordeaux
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Charles-Pierre-François Cotton †
Bishop of Valence
Bishop Matthieu-Victor-Félicien Balaïn, O.M.I. †
Bishop of Nice

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Aimé-Victor-François Cardinal Guilbert † (1867)
Archbishop of Bordeaux
Archbishop François-Augustin Delamare † (1856)
Archbishop of Auch
Thomas-Marie-Joseph Cardinal Gousset † (1836)
Archbishop of Reims
Archbishop Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen † (1817)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny † (1786)
Archbishop of Besançon
Bishop César-Guillaume de La Luzerne † (1770)
Bishop of Langres
Archbishop Christophe de Beaumont du Repaire † (1741)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Louis-Jacques Chapt de Rastignac † (1722)
Archbishop of Tours
Bishop Jean-François Salgues de Valderies de Lescure † (1699)
Bishop of Luçon
Archbishop Louis-Antoine de Noailles † (1679)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop François de Harlay de Champvallon † (1651)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Nicolò Guidi di Bagno † (1644)
Titular Archbishop of Athenae
Antonio (Marcello) Cardinal Barberini (Sr.), O.F.M. Cap. † (1625)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Bishop Laudivio Zacchia † (1605)
Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone
Pietro Cardinal Aldobrandini † (1604)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Clement VIII (1592)
(Ippolito Aldobrandini (Sr.) †)
Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza) † (1564)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Francesco Cardinal Pisani † (1527)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Alessandro Cardinal Farnese † (1519)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jean-Marie-Léon Dizien † (1896)
Bishop Jean Hazera † (1897)
Archbishop Dominique Castellan † (1906)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 305226052
WikiData: Q28838754

Source(s):

b/c2+: LC
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 582
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1889, Number 40

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