Bishop Louis-Marie-Antoine Caspar, M.E.P. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Northern Cochin {Cocincina Settentrionale}, Viet Nam

Titular Bishop of Canatha

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Jul 1841		Born
18 Sep 1861	20.1	Entered	Member of La Société des Missions Etrangères
30 May 1863	21.8	Ordained Subdeacon	Subdeacon of La Société des Missions Etrangères
19 Dec 1863	22.4	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of La Société des Missions Etrangères
17 Dec 1864	23.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of La Société des Missions Etrangères
23 Mar 1880	38.6	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Northern Cochin {Cocincina Settentrionale}, Viet Nam
23 Mar 1880	38.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Canatha
24 Aug 1880	39.0	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Canatha
18 Jul 1907	65.9	Resigned	Vicar Apostolic of Northern Cochin {Cocincina Settentrionale}, Viet Nam
13 Jun 1917	75.8	Died	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Northern Cochin {Cocincina Settentrionale}, Viet Nam

MicroData Summary
Louis-Marie-Antoine Caspar
Bishop Louis-Marie-Antoine Caspar M.E.P.
(born 23 Jul 1841, died 13 Jun 1917)
Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Northern Cochin {Cocincina Settentrionale}

Event Place
Birth Place Obernai, Diocese of Strasbourg, France
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Saigon, Vicariate Apostolic of Western Cochin {Cocincina Occidentale}
Death Place Hospice, Obernai, Diocese of Strasbourg, France
Buried Place (Original) Cemetery, Obernai, Diocese of Strasbourg, France

a priest for 52.4 years
a bishop for 36.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Isidore-François-Joseph Colombert, M.E.P. †
Titular Bishop of Samosata
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Édouard Gasnier, M.E.P. †
Titular Bishop of Eucarpia
Bishop Louis-Marie Galibert, M.E.P. †
Titular Bishop of Aenus

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Isidore-François-Joseph Colombert, M.E.P. † (1872)
Titular Bishop of Samosata
Bishop Jean-Claude Miche, M.E.P. † (1847)
Titular Bishop of Dausara
Bishop Dominique Lefèbvre, M.E.P. † (1841)
Titular Bishop of Isauropolis
Bishop St. Etienne-Théodore Cuénot, M.E.P. † (1835)
Titular Bishop of Metellopolis
Bishop Jean-Louis Taberd, M.E.P. † (1830)
Titular Bishop of Isauropolis
Bishop Esprit-Marie-Joseph Floren, M.E.P. † (1812)
Titular Bishop of Sozopolis in Haemimonto
Bishop Jean Labartette, M.E.P. † (1793)
Titular Bishop of Vera
Bishop Jacques-Benjamin Longer, M.E.P. † (1792)
Titular Bishop of Gortyna
Bishop Marcelino José Da Silva † (1790)
Bishop of Macau
Archbishop Carlo Bellisomi † (1775)
Titular Archbishop of Tyana
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 Jean-Marie Dépierre, M.E.P. † (1895)
Bishop Damien Grangeon, M.E.P. † (1902)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Désiré-François-Xavier Van Camelbeke, M.E.P. † (1884)
Bishop Jean-Baptiste Grosgeorge, M.E.P. † (1896)

External Link(s):

France-Asia Research Institute: 0868
WikiData: Q3261443

Source(s):

c2+: LC
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 178
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1880, Number 38

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