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Bishop Jacques-François Besson †

Deceased

Bishop of Metz, France

Events

Event	Place
Birth Place	Seyssel
Ordained Bishop	S. Nizier, Lyon, Archdiocese of Lyon (-Vienne)
Death Place	Metz, Diocese of Metz

a priest for 62.5 years a bishop for 18.4 years

Principal Consecrator: Bishop Jean-Paul-Gaston de Pins † Bishop of Limoges Principal Co-Consecrators: Bishop Alexandre-Raymond Devie † Bishop of Belley Bishop Antoine-Jacques de Chamon † Bishop of Saint-Claude

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Bishop Jean-Paul-Gaston de Pins † (1822) Bishop of Limoges 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)

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