Archbishop François Désiré Jean Drure, O.C.D. †

Deceased

Archbishop of Baghdad, Iraq

Apostolic Delegate to Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Lesser Armenia

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Jan 1859		Born
24 Mar 1883	24.1	Ordained Priest	Priest
8 Sep 1892	33.6	Professed	Priest of Order of Discalced Carmelites
7 Nov 1902	43.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Baghdad, Iraq
16 Nov 1902	43.7	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Baghdad, Iraq
5 Mar 1904	45.0	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Lesser Armenia, Iraq
27 May 1917	58.3	Died	Archbishop of Baghdad, Iraq

MicroData Summary
François Désiré Jean Drure
Archbishop François Désiré Jean Drure O.C.D.
(born 30 Jan 1859, died 27 May 1917)
Archbishop of Baghdad

Event Place
Birth Place Digoin, France

a priest for 34.1 years
a bishop for 14.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Girolamo Maria Cardinal Gotti, O.C.D. †
Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria della Scala
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Denis (Alphonse) Steyaert, O.C.D. †
Titular Archbishop of Damascus
Bishop Alessandro Beniamino Zanecchia-Ginnetti, O.C.D. †
Bishop of Teramo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Girolamo Maria Cardinal Gotti, O.C.D. † (1892)
Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria della Scala
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Rinaldo Camillo Rousset, O.C.D. † (1906)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q55056677

Source(s):

b/c2+: LC
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 137
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1902, Number 66

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