Bishop Jules-Joseph Cénez, O.M.I. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Basutoland, Lesotho

Titular Bishop of Nicopolis in Armenia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
9 May 1865		Born
8 Sep 1890	25.3	Ordained Priest	Priest of Oblates of Mary Immaculate
1897¹	31.6	Appointed	Prefect of Basutoland, Lesotho
27 Feb 1909	43.7	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Basutoland, Lesotho
27 Feb 1909	43.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Nicopolis in Armenia
1 May 1909	43.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Nicopolis in Armenia
24 May 1930	65.0	Resigned	Vicar Apostolic of Basutoland, Lesotho
2 Mar 1944	78.8	Died	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Basutoland, Lesotho

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Jules-Joseph Cénez
Bishop Jules-Joseph Cénez O.M.I.
(born 9 May 1865, died 2 Mar 1944)
Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Basutoland

Event Place
Birth Place Hampont, France

a priest for 53.4 years
a bishop for 34.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Augustin Dontenwill, O.M.I. †
Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Phoenicia
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Karl Ernst Schrod †
Titular Bishop of Basilinopolis
Bishop Gabriel Joseph Élie Breynat, O.M.I. †
Titular Bishop of Adramyttium

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Augustin Dontenwill, O.M.I. † (1897)
Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Phoenicia
Archbishop Louis Philip Adélard Langevin, O.M.I. † (1895)
Archbishop of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba
Archbishop Édouard-Charles Fabre † (1873)
Archbishop of Montréal, Québec
Archbishop Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau † (1871)
Archbishop of Québec
Archbishop John Joseph Lynch, C.M. † (1859)
Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario
Bishop Armand-Françios-Marie de Charbonnel, O.F.M. Cap. † (1850)
Bishop of Toronto, Ontario
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Adalbero Joseph (Michael) Fleischer, C.M.M. † (1922)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q48870691

Source(s):

b/c2+: LC
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1909, Number 16
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 9, Page 272

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