Bishop Germain-Louis-Émile Berthold, M.E.P. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 Mar 1923		Born
18 Sep 1950	27.4	Entered	Member of La Société des Missions Etrangères
6 Dec 1952	29.7	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of La Société des Missions Etrangères
31 May 1953	30.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères
9 Apr 1970	47.0	Appointed	Bishop of Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand
17 Jul 1970	47.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand
24 May 1976	53.1	Resigned	Bishop of Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand
21 Feb 1994	70.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

MicroData Summary
Germain-Louis-Émile Berthold
Bishop Germain-Louis-Émile Berthold M.E.P.
(born 22 Mar 1923, died 21 Feb 1994)
Bishop Emeritus of Ubon Ratchathani

Event Place
Birth Place Saint-Ursanne-la-Motte (Clos du Doubs), Diocese of Basel e Lugano, Switzerland
Ordained Deacon Foreign Missions, Chapel, Paris, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Priest Foreign Missions, Chapel, Paris, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Ubon Ratchathani, Diocese of Ubon Ratchathani
Death Place Community House, Ubon Ratchathani, Diocese of Ubon Ratchathani

a priest for 40.7 years
a bishop for 23.5 years

Ordained Deacon by:
Bishop Henri-Marie-Ernest-Désiré Pinault, M.E.P. †
Bishop of Chengdu [Chengtu]
Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Charles-Joseph Lemaire, M.E.P. †
Titular Bishop of Otrus
Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Claudius-Philippe Bayet, M.E.P. †
Titular Bishop of Mascula
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Michael Kien Samophithak †
Archbishop of Thare and Nonseng
Bishop Alain Sauveur Ferdinand van Gaver, M.E.P. †
Bishop of Nakhon Ratchasima

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Claudius-Philippe Bayet, M.E.P. † (1947)
Titular Bishop of Mascula
Bishop René-Marie-Joseph Perros, M.E.P. † (1910)
Titular Bishop of Zoara
Bishop Émile Marie Luc Alphonse Barillon, M.E.P. † (1904)
Bishop of Malacca
Archbishop Joseph-Adolphe Gandy, M.E.P. † (1883)
Archbishop of Pondicherry
Bishop François-Jean-Marie Laouënan, M.E.P. † (1868)
Titular Bishop of Flaviopolis
Bishop Etienne-Louis Charbonnaux, M.E.P. † (1845)
Titular Bishop of Iasus
Bishop Clément Bonnand, M.E.P. † (1833)
Titular Bishop of Druzipara
Bishop Louis-Charles-Auguste Hébert, M.E.P. † (1811)
Titular Bishop of Halicarnassus
Bishop Paolo Antonio Roviglia, O.C.D. † (1808)
Titular Bishop of Sura
Bishop Antonio Ramazzini, O.C.D. † (1795)
Titular Bishop of Antiphellus
Bishop Luigi Pianazzi, O.C.D. † (1785)
Titular Bishop of Usula
Bishop Pierre Brigot, M.E.P. † (1757)
Titular Bishop of Thabraca
Bishop Juan de La Fuente Yepes † (1755)
Bishop of Nueva Segovia
Bishop Manuel de Matos, O.F.M. Disc. † (1754)
Bishop of Nueva Caceres
Archbishop Manuel José Rubio y Salinas † (1749)
Archbishop of México, Federal District
Bishop Domingo Pantaleón Álvarez de Abreu † (1738)
Bishop of Tlaxcala (Puebla de los Angeles)
Bishop Pedro Manuel Dávila y Cárdenas † (1731)
Bishop of Islas Canarias {Canary Islands}
Bishop Julián Domínguez y Toledo † (1728)
Bishop of Valladolid
Bishop Silvestre García Escalona † (1702)
Bishop of Salamanca
Patriarch Pedro Portocarrero y Guzmán † (1691)
Patriarch of West Indies
Luis Manuel Cardinal Fernández de Portocarrero-Bocanegra y Moscoso-Osorio † (1678)
Archbishop of Toledo
Archbishop Jaime de Palafox y Cardona † (1677)
Archbishop of Palermo
Carlo Cardinal Pio di Savoia † (1655)
Cardinal-Priest of San Crisogono
Giambattista Cardinal Spada † (1643)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Susanna
Marcantonio Cardinal Franciotti † (1637)
Bishop of Lucca
Antonio (Marcello) Cardinal Barberini (Sr.), O.F.M. Cap. † (1625)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Onofrio
Bishop Laudivio Zacchia † (1605)
Bishop of Corneto (Tarquinia) e Montefiascone
Pietro Cardinal Aldobrandini † (1604)
Archbishop of Ravenna
Pope Clement VIII (1592)
(Ippolito Aldobrandini (Sr.) †)
Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza) † (1564)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Francesco Cardinal Pisani † (1527)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Alessandro Cardinal Farnese † (1519)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Leo X (1513)
(Giovanni de’ Medici †)
Raffaele Cardinal Sansoni Riario † (1504)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Pope Julius II (1481)
(Giuliano della Rovere †)
Pope Sixtus IV (1471)
(Francesco della Rovere, O.F.M. †)
Guillaume Cardinal d’Estouteville, O.S.B. †
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop Michael Bunluen Mansap † (1976)

External Link(s):

France-Asia Research Institute: 3975
WikiData: Q13416015

Source(s):

d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 141, Necrology (back)
od/op/c01/loc: AJ, 3 Jul 2018
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 11, Number 546

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