Bishop Joseph Lafontant

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Port-au-Prince, Haïti

Titular Bishop of Gilba

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
17 Dec 1937		Born
29 Jun 1963	25.5	Ordained Priest	Priest of Port-au-Prince, Haïti
25 Nov 1986	48.9	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Port-au-Prince, Haïti
25 Nov 1986	48.9	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Gilba
25 Jan 1987	49.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Gilba
27 Jul 2013	75.6	Retired	Auxiliary Bishop of Port-au-Prince, Haïti

MicroData Summary
Joseph Lafontant
Bishop Joseph Lafontant
(born 17 Dec 1937)
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Port-au-Prince

Ad Limina - March 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - June 2017: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Jacmel
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Port-au-Prince, Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince

Please contact the Bishop through the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop François-Marie-Joseph Poirier †
Archbishop of Port-au-Prince
Principal Consecrator:
Bernardin Cardinal Gantin †
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop François-Wolff Ligondé †
Archbishop of Port-au-Prince
Bishop Léonard Pétion Laroche †
Bishop of Hinche

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bernardin Cardinal Gantin † (1957)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Launay Saturné (1991)
Bishop Désinord Jean (1994)
Bishop Glandas Marie Erick Toussaint (1994)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Glandas Marie Erick Toussaint (2011)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Launay Saturné (2010)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Jacmel
Ordained Bishop	Cathedral, Port-au-Prince, Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1510995

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 194, Deceased Cardinals (back)
r: Bollettino, 27 Jul 2013
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 102, Number 8,868

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