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Bishop Joseph Fréri †

Deceased

Titular Bishop of Constantia in Arabia

Events

Event	Place
Birth Place	Saint-Étienne, Archdiocese of Lyon (-Vienne), France
Ordained Priest	Lyon, Archdiocese of Lyon (-Vienne), France
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Lyon, Archdiocese of Lyon (-Vienne), France
Death Place	Mont Brison, Archdiocese of Lyon (-Vienne), France
Buried Place (Original)	Saint-Étienne, Archdiocese of Lyon (-Vienne), France

a priest for 39.8 years a bishop for 3.0 years

Ordained Priest by: Archbishop Joseph-Alfred Foulon † Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne) Principal Consecrator: Louis-Joseph Cardinal Maurin † Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne) Principal Co-Consecrators: Archbishop Pierre-Florentin-André du Bois de la Villerabel † Archbishop of Rouen Bishop Gabriel Joseph Élie Breynat, O.M.I. † Titular Bishop of Adramyttium

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Louis-Joseph Cardinal Maurin † (1911) Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne) Paulin-Pierre Cardinal Andrieu † (1901) Archbishop of Bordeaux Archbishop Jean-Augustin Germain † (1897) Archbishop of Toulouse (-Narbonne) Bishop Félix-Auguste Béguinot † (1896) Bishop of Nîmes (-Uzès e Alès) Jean-Pierre Cardinal Boyer † (1878) Archbishop of Bourges Archbishop Théodore-Augustin Forcade, M.E.P. † (1847) Archbishop of Aix (-Arles-Embrun) Bishop Giovanni Domenico Rizzolati, O.F.M. Ref. † (1840) Titular Bishop of Arad Bishop Joachin (Gioacchino Domenico) Salvetti, O.F.M. Obs. † (1817) Titular Bishop of Euroea in Epiro Bishop Cajetan Pires Pireira, C.M. † (1806) Bishop of Nanking [Nanjing] Bishop Alexandre de Gouvea (Gouveia), T.O.R. † (1783) Bishop of Peking [Beijing] Archbishop Francisco da Assumpção e Brito, O.E.S.A. † (1773) Archbishop of Goa João Cosme Cardinal da Cunha (de Nossa Senhora da Porta), C.R.S.A. † (1746) Archbishop of Évora Tomás Cardinal de Almeida † (1707) Patriarch of Lisboa {Lisbon} Bishop Nuno da Cunha e Ataíde † (1706) Titular Bishop of Targa Bishop Álvaro de Abranches e Noronha † (1694) Bishop of Leiria Bishop João de Sousa † (1684) Bishop of Porto Archbishop Veríssimo de Lencastre † (1671) Archbishop Emeritus of Braga Bishop Francesco Ravizza † (1667) Titular Bishop of Sidon Neri Cardinal Corsini † (1652) Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo Fabio Cardinal Chigi † (1635) Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo Bishop Miguel Juan Balaguer Camarasa, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1635) Bishop of Malta Francesco Maria Cardinal Brancaccio † (1627) Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli Cosimo Cardinal de Torres † (1621) Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio Maffeo (Virginio Romolo) Cardinal Barberini † (1604) Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio Patriarch Fabio Biondi (Blondus de Montealto) † (1588) Titular Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} Scipione Cardinal Gonzaga † (1585) Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo Iñigo Cardinal Avalos de Aragón, O.S. † (1566) Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina Pope Pius V (1556) (St. Antonio (Michele) Ghislieri, O.P. †) Giovanni Michele Cardinal Saraceni † (1536) Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli Antonio Cardinal Sanseverino, O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1531) Archbishop of Taranto Pope Clement VII (1517) (Giulio de’ Medici †) Pope Leo X (1513) (Giovanni de’ Medici †) Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504) Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri) Pope Julius II (1481) (Giuliano della Rovere †) Pope Sixtus IV (1471) (Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †) Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. † Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

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