Bishop Georges Marie Paul Petit †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Verdun, France

Titular Bishop of Voncaria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
21 Aug 1888		Born
6 Apr 1912	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest
20 Jun 1942	53.8	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Verdun, France
20 Jun 1942	53.8	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Leuce
1 Oct 1942	54.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Leuce
7 Jan 1946	57.3	Succeeded	Bishop of Verdun, France
31 Aug 1963	75.0	Retired	Bishop of Verdun, France
31 Aug 1963	75.0	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Voncaria
13 Jan 1970	81.3	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Verdun, France

MicroData Summary
Georges Marie Paul Petit
Bishop Georges Marie Paul Petit
(born 21 Aug 1888, died 13 Jan 1970)
Bishop Emeritus of Verdun

Event Place
Birth Place Cheppes-la-Prairie

a priest for 57.7 years
a bishop for 27.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Joseph-Marie Tissier †
Bishop of Châlons
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Marcel Fleury †
Bishop of Nancy (-Toul)
Bishop Félix Roeder †
Bishop of Beauvais (-Noyon-Senlis)

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joseph-Marie Tissier † (1913)
Bishop of Châlons
Bishop Henri-Louis-Alfred Bouquet † (1901)
Bishop of Chartres
Archbishop Eudoxe-Irénée-Edouard Mignot † (1890)
Archbishop of Albi
Archbishop Odon Thibaudier † (1875)
Archbishop of Cambrai
Archbishop Jean-Paul-François-Marie-Félix Lyonnet † (1852)
Archbishop of Albi
Louis-Jacques-Maurice Cardinal de Bonald † (1823)
Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne)
Bishop Jean-Baptist-Marie-Anne-Antoine de Latil † (1816)
Bishop of Chartres
Archbishop François de Pierre de Bernis † (1781)
Archbishop Emeritus of Albi
Pope Pius VI (1775)
(Giovanni Angelico Braschi †)
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:
Bishop René-Joseph Piérard † (1946)
Archbishop Louis-Marie-Fernand de Bazelaire de Ruppierre † (1947)
Bishop Pierre-Francis-Lucien-Anatole Boillon † (1962)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 22203449
WikiData: Q22582635

Source(s):

c2+: LC
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1942, Number 50

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