Bishop Louis Rossat †

Deceased

Bishop of Verdun, France

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
8 Dec 1789		Born
19 Dec 1812	23.0	Ordained Priest	Priest
6 Jul 1840	50.5	Selected	Bishop of Gap, France
14 Dec 1840	51.0	Confirmed	Bishop of Gap, France
14 Feb 1841	51.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Gap, France
10 Mar 1841	51.2	Installed	Bishop of Gap, France
25 Apr 1844	54.3	Selected	Bishop of Verdun, France
17 Jun 1844	54.5	Confirmed	Bishop of Verdun, France
13 Jul 1844	54.5	Installed	Bishop of Verdun, France
24 Dec 1866	77.0	Died	Bishop of Verdun, France

MicroData Summary
Louis Rossat
Bishop Louis Rossat
(born 8 Dec 1789, died 24 Dec 1866)
Bishop of Verdun

Event Place
Birth Place Lyon, Archdiocese of Lyon (-Vienne)

a priest for 54.0 years
a bishop for 25.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Louis-Jacques-Maurice de Bonald †
Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne)
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Alexandre-Raymond Devie †
Bishop of Belley
Bishop Pierre Chatrousse †
Bishop of Valence

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Louis-Jacques-Maurice 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 Consecrator of:
Bishop Charles-Nicolas-Pierre Didiot † (1856)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Pierre-Louis Coeur † (1849)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 1067155598031315600008
WikiData: Q22582626

Source(s):

b/c2+: LC
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 388, and Page 398
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1841, Number 3

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