Archbishop Alexandre Vachon †

Deceased

Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Aug 1885		Born
22 May 1910	24.7	Ordained Priest	Priest
11 Dec 1939	54.3	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
11 Dec 1939	54.3	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Achrida
2 Feb 1940	54.4	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Achrida
22 May 1940	54.7	Succeeded	Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
30 Mar 1953	67.6	Died	Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

MicroData Summary
Alexandre Vachon
Archbishop Alexandre Vachon
(born 16 Aug 1885, died 30 Mar 1953)
Archbishop of Ottawa

Event Place
Birth Place Saint-Raymond, Archdiocese of Québec
Ordained Bishop Notre-Dame, Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa, Archdiocese of Ottawa, Ontario
Death Place Dallas, Diocese of Dallas, Texas, USA
Buried Place (Original) Notre-Dame, Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa, Archdiocese of Ottawa, Ontario

a priest for 42.8 years
a bishop for 13.1 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Joseph-Guillaume-Laurent Forbes †
Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Charles Leo Nelligan †
Bishop of Pembroke, Ontario
Bishop Joseph Charbonneau †
Bishop of Hearst, Ontario

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Joseph-Guillaume-Laurent Forbes † (1913)
Archbishop of Ottawa, Ontario
Archbishop Louis Joseph Napoléon Paul Bruchési † (1897)
Archbishop of Montréal, Québec
Archbishop Louis-Nazaire Bégin † (1888)
Titular Archbishop of Cyrene
Elzéar-Alexandre Cardinal Taschereau † (1871)
Archbishop of Québec
Archbishop John Joseph Lynch, C.M. † (1859)
Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario
Bishop Armand-Françios-Marie de Charbonnel, O.F.M. Cap. † (1850)
Bishop of Toronto, Ontario
Pope Pius IX (1827)
(Bl. Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti †)
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Cardinal Castiglioni † (1800)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Giuseppe Maria Cardinal Doria Pamphilj † (1773)
Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli
Buenaventura Cardinal Córdoba Espinosa de la Cerda † (1761)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Archbishop Manuel Quintano Bonifaz † (1749)
Titular Archbishop of Pharsalus
Archbishop Enrico Enríquez † (1743)
Titular Archbishop of Nazianzus
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:
Bishop Adrien André Maria Cimichella, O.S.M. † (1945)
Bishop Louis-de-Gonzague Langevin, M. Afr. † (1950)
Bishop Lorenzo Rodolfo (Laurent-Rodolphe) Guibord Lévesque, O.F.M. † (1950)
Bishop Jean Gratton † (1952)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Lionel Scheffer, O.M.I. † (1946)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Albini LeBlanc † (1941)
Bishop Georges Léon Pelletier † (1943)
Bishop Bruno Desrochers † (1951)
Archbishop Louis Lévesque † (1952)
Archbishop Paul Bernier † (1952)

External Link(s):

Find a Grave (Grave): 167203501
VIAF: 188819737
WikiData: Q2834098

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1940, Number 4

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