Bishop Louis-Marie-Olivier Epivent †

Deceased

Bishop of Aire et Dax, France

Motto: Fide Et Charitate

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Jun 1805		Born
19 Sep 1829	24.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Saint-Brieuc (-Tréguier), France
23 Aug 1859	54.1	Selected	Bishop of Aire et Dax, France
26 Sep 1859	54.2	Confirmed	Bishop of Aire et Dax, France
20 Nov 1859	54.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Aire et Dax, France
22 Jul 1876	71.0	Died	Bishop of Aire et Dax, France

MicroData Summary
Louis-Marie-Olivier Epivent
Bishop Louis-Marie-Olivier Epivent
(born 30 Jun 1805, died 22 Jul 1876)
Bishop of Aire et Dax

First Vatican Council: Council Father

Event Place
Birth Place Pordic, Diocese of Saint-Brieuc (-Tréguier)
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Saint-Brieuc, Diocese of Saint-Brieuc (-Tréguier)
Death Place Aire, Diocese of Aire et Dax
Buried Place (Original) Buglose

a priest for 46.8 years
a bishop for 16.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Guillaume-Elisée Martial †
Bishop of Saint-Brieuc (-Tréguier)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Antoine-Matthias-Alexandre Jacquemet †
Bishop of Nantes
Bishop Nicolas-Marie Sergent †
Bishop of Quimper [Cornouailles](-Léon)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Guillaume-Elisée Martial † (1858)
Bishop of Saint-Brieuc (-Tréguier)
François-Auguste-Ferdinand Cardinal Donnet † (1835)
Archbishop of Bordeaux
Bishop Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph Forbin-Janson † (1824)
Bishop of Nancy (-Toul)
Archbishop Gustave-Maximilien-Juste de Croÿ-Solre † (1820)
Archbishop of Rouen
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Louis-Anne Dubreil † (1861)
Bishop Pierre-Marc Le Breton † (1863)
Bishop Jean-Baptiste Charles Gazailhan † (1864)
Bishop Thomas-Casimir-François de Ladoue † (1873)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/200026
VIAF: 120169408
WikiData: Q61856442

Source(s):

b/c2+: LC
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 130
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1859, Number 48

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