Bishop François-Xavier Dione †

Deceased

Bishop of Thiès, Senegal

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
Jun 1919		Born
18 Apr 1949	29.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Dakar, Senegal
6 Feb 1969	49.6	Appointed	Bishop of Thiès, Senegal
15 May 1969	49.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Thiès, Senegal
4 Feb 1985	65.6	Died	Bishop of Thiès, Senegal

MicroData Summary
François-Xavier Dione
Bishop François-Xavier Dione
(born Jun 1919, died 4 Feb 1985)
Bishop of Thiès

Event Place
Birth Place Tiapong
Ordained Priest Cathedral, Dakar, Vicariate Apostolic of Dakar
Ordained Bishop Sainte-Anne, Church, Thiès, Diocese of Thiès

a priest for 35.7 years
a bishop for 15.7 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Marcel-François Joseph Marie Lefebvre, C.S.Sp. †
Titular Archbishop of Arcadiopolis in Europa
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Hyacinthe Thiandoum †
Archbishop of Dakar
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Prosper Paul Dodds, C.S.Sp. †
Bishop of Saint-Louis du Sénégal
Bishop Augustin Sagna †
Bishop of Ziguinchor

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Hyacinthe Thiandoum † (1962)
Archbishop of Dakar
Archbishop Jean Émile André Marie Maury † (1958)
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia
Pierre-Marie Paul Cardinal Gerlier † (1929)
Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne)
Louis-Ernest Cardinal Dubois † (1901)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop Marie-Prosper-Adolphe de Bonfils † (1898)
Bishop of Le Mans
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q11859991

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 175, Deceased Cardinals (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 2, Number 64
c1: CB, 10 Sep 2021

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