Bishop Henri-Guillaume Le Jay †

Deceased

Bishop of Cahors, France

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1646¹		Born
1672¹	26.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
6 Sep 1680	34.6	Selected	Bishop of Cahors, France
28 Apr 1681	35.3	Confirmed	Bishop of Cahors, France
1 Jun 1681	35.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Cahors, France
22 Apr 1693	47.3	Died	Bishop of Cahors, France

Note(s): ¹ Year Uncertain

MicroData Summary
Henri-Guillaume Le Jay
Bishop Henri-Guillaume Le Jay
(born 1646, died 22 Apr 1693)
Bishop of Cahors

Event Place
Birth Place Paris, Archdiocese of Paris

a priest for 21.3 years
a bishop for 11.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop François de Harlay de Champvallon †
Archbishop of Paris

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop François de Harlay de Champvallon † (1651)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Nicolò Guidi di Bagno † (1644)
Titular Archbishop of Athenae
Antonio (Marcello) Cardinal Barberini (Sr.), O.F.M. Cap. † (1625)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Bishop Laudivio Zacchia † (1605)
Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone
Pietro Cardinal Aldobrandini † (1604)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Clement VIII (1592)
(Ippolito Aldobrandini (Sr.) †)
Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza) † (1564)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Francesco Cardinal Pisani † (1527)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Alessandro Cardinal Farnese † (1519)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q22973170

Source(s):

b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 151
b/c2: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1681, Number 15

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