Archbishop François Robert Bacqué †

Deceased

Apostolic Nuncio

Titular Archbishop of Gradisca

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Sep 1936		Born
1 Oct 1966	30.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Bordeaux (-Bazas), France
17 Jun 1988	51.7	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Gradisca
17 Jun 1988	51.7	Appointed	Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Sri Lanka
3 Sep 1988	52.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Gradisca
7 Jun 1994	57.7	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Dominican Republic
7 Jun 1994	57.7	Appointed	Apostolic Delegate to Puerto Rico
27 Feb 2001	64.4	Appointed	Apostolic Nuncio to Netherlands
15 Dec 2011³	75.2	Retired	Apostolic Nuncio to Netherlands
9 Nov 2023	87.1	Died	Apostolic Nuncio

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary
François Robert Bacqué
Archbishop François Robert Bacqué
(born 2 Sep 1936, died 9 Nov 2023)
Apostolic Nuncio

Event Place
Birth Place Bordeaux, Archdiocese of Bordeaux (-Bazas), France
Ordained Bishop Saint-André, Cathedral, Bordeaux, Archdiocese of Bordeaux (-Bazas), France
Death Place Via della Scrofa, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy

a priest for 57.1 years
a bishop for 35.1 years

Ordained Priest by:
Paul-Marie-Alexandre Cardinal Richaud †
Archbishop of Bordeaux (-Bazas)
Principal Consecrator:
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli †
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Marius-Félix-Antoine Maziers †
Archbishop of Bordeaux (-Bazas)
Bishop Thierry Romain Camille Jordan
Coadjutor Bishop of Pontoise

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
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 Rafael Leónidas Felipe y Núñez (2000)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Rayappu Joseph † (1992)
Bishop Amancio Escapa Aparicio, O.C.D. † (1996)
Bishop Pablo Cedano Cedano † (1996)
Archbishop Freddy Antonio de Jesús Bretón Martínez (1998)
Bishop Diómedes Espinal de León (2000)
Bishop Ruben Antonio González Medina, C.M.F. (2001)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 218277381
WikiData: Q677233

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 111, Number 9,813
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 152, Deceased Cardinals (back)
d: CB, 9 Nov 2023

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