Joseph Cardinal Fesch †

Deceased

Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne), France

Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina

Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Vittoria

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
3 Jan 1763		Born
1787	23.9	Ordained Priest	Priest
31 Jul 1802	39.5	Selected	Archbishop of Lyon, France
4 Aug 1802	39.5	Confirmed	Archbishop of Lyon, France
15 Aug 1802	39.6	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Lyon, France
17 Jan 1803	40.0	Elevated to Cardinal
17 Jan 1803	40.0	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Vittoria
2 Dec 1822	59.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
13 May 1839	76.3	Died	Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne), France

MicroData Summary for Joseph Fesch
(VIAF: 92145857803723020209; WikiData: Q450181)
Joseph Cardinal Fesch (born 3 Jan 1763, died 13 May 1839) Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne)

Consistory - January 1803: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1823: Participated
Conclave - 1829: Participated
Conclave - 1830/1831: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Ajaccio, Diocese of Ajaccio

a priest for 52.3 years
a bishop for 36.7 years
a cardinal for 36.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Giovanni Battista Cardinal Caprara Montecuccoli †
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Etienne-Alexandre-Jean-Baptiste-Marie Bernier †
Bishop of Orléans
Bishop Louis Sébastiani de La Porta †
Bishop of Ajaccio

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Giovanni Battista Cardinal Caprara Montecuccoli † (1766)
Archbishop of Milano {Milan}
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

Ordained Priest:
Archbishop Jean-Marie Mioland † (1812)
Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Nicolas-Marie Fournier de la Contamine † (1806)
Bishop Gaspard-Jean-André Jauffret † (1806)
Bishop Fabien-Sébastien Imberties † (1806)
Archbishop Etienne-Marie de Boulogne † (1809)
Bishop Francesco Stracchini † (1819)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Ajaccio, Diocese of Ajaccio

Source(s):

b/c2+: LC
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 245
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1802, Number 46

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