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Bishop François-Nicolas-Xavier-Louis Besson †

Deceased

Bishop of Nîmes (-Uzès e Alès), France

Events

Event	Place
Birth Place	Baume-les-Dames
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Besançon, Archdiocese of Besançon
Death Place	Nîmes, Diocese of Nîmes (-Uzès e Alès)

a priest for 43.1 years a bishop for 13.0 years

Principal Consecrator: Archbishop Pierre-Antoine-Justin Paulinier † Archbishop of Besançon Principal Co-Consecrators: Bishop Louis-Marie-Joseph-Eusèbe Caverot † Bishop of Saint-Dié Bishop Jean-Jacques-Marie-Antoine Guerrin † Bishop of Langres

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Archbishop Pierre-Antoine-Justin Paulinier † (1870) Archbishop of Besançon Archbishop Jacques-Marie-Achille Ginoulhiac † (1853) Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne) Archbishop Pierre-Marie-Joseph Darcimoles † (1840) Archbishop of Aix (-Arles-Embrun) Archbishop Jean-Joseph-Marie-Victoire de Cosnac † (1819) Archbishop of Sens (-Auxerre) Archbishop Jean-Charles de Coucy † (1790) Archbishop of Reims Archbishop Antonio Dugnani † (1785) Titular Archbishop of Rhodus Carlo Cardinal Rezzonico (Jr.) † (1773) Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina Giovanni Francesco Cardinal Albani † (1760) Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina 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 Consecrator of: Archbishop Edmond-Frédéric Fuzet † (1888)

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