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Bishop Mathias Poncet de la Rivière †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Troyes, France

Events

Event	Place
Birth Place	Paris, Archdiocese of Paris

a bishop for 37.9 years

Principal Consecrator: Archbishop Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy † Archbishop of Sens

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Archbishop Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy † (1715) Archbishop of Sens Archbishop François de Mailly † (1698) Archbishop of Reims Toussaint Cardinal de Forbin de Janson † (1656) Bishop of Beauvais Bishop Étienne de Puget † (1624) Bishop of Marseille Archbishop Jean-François de Gondi † (1623) Archbishop of Paris François Cardinal d’Escoubleau de Sourdis † (1599) Archbishop of Bordeaux François Cardinal de Joyeuse † Archbishop of Toulouse

Principal Co-Consecrator of: Bishop Lucretius-Henri-François de La Tour du Pin Montauban † (1752) Bishop Félicien Bocon de La Merlière † (1752) Bishop Plaicart de Raigecourt † (1758) Bishop Jean-Baptiste Miroudot Du Bourg, O. Cist. † (1776)

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