Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Cardinal Lefebvre de Cheverus †

Deceased

Archbishop of Bordeaux, France

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Jan 1768		Born
Oct 1790³	22.6	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Le Mans, France
18 Dec 1790	22.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Le Mans, France
8 Apr 1808	40.1	Appointed	Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1 Nov 1810	42.7	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA
12 Feb 1823	55.0	Selected	Bishop of Montauban, France
3 May 1823	55.2	Confirmed	Bishop of Montauban, France
13 Aug 1826	58.5	Selected	Archbishop of Bordeaux, France
2 Oct 1826	58.6	Confirmed	Archbishop of Bordeaux, France
1 Feb 1836	68.0	Elevated to Cardinal
19 Jul 1836	68.4	Died	Archbishop of Bordeaux, France

Note(s): ³ Day Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Lefebvre de Cheverus
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Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Cardinal Lefebvre de Cheverus (born 28 Jan 1768, died 19 Jul 1836) Archbishop of Bordeaux

Consistory - February 1836: Created Cardinal

Event Place
Birth Place Mayenne
Ordained Priest Paris, Archdiocese of Paris
Ordained Bishop St. Peter, Cathedral, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland, USA

a priest for 45.5 years
a bishop for 25.7 years
a cardinal for .4 years

Ordained Priest by:
Archbishop Antoine-Eléonore-Léon Le Clerc de Juigné †
Archbishop of Paris
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop John Carroll †
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Leonard Neale †
Titular Bishop of Gortyna
Bishop Michael Francis Egan, O.F.M. Rec. †
Bishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop John Carroll † (1790)
Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland
Bishop Charles Walmesley, O.S.B. † (1756)
Titular Bishop of Ramata (Rama)
Federico Marcello Cardinal Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere † (1732)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Annibale Cardinal Albani † (1730)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Francesco Cardinal Barberini (Jr.) † (1721)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Fabrizio Cardinal Paolucci † (1685)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Gasparo Cardinal Carpegna † (1670)
Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Archbishop of Ravenna
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:
Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal, P.S.S. † (1817)
Bishop Jean-Armand Chaudru de Trélissac † (1833)
Bishop Jean-Pierre-Marie Cadalen † (1833)
Bishop Pierre-Michel-Marie Double † (1833)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P.S.S. † (1810)
Bishop Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph Forbin-Janson † (1824)
Assisted:
Bishop Michael Francis Egan, O.F.M. Rec. † (1810)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Mayenne
Ordained Priest	Paris, Archdiocese of Paris
Ordained Bishop	St. Peter, Cathedral, Baltimore, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1810, Number 10
ob: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 115
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 115, and Page 121
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 7, Page 269
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 7, Number 336, Ascendance
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 9, Number 459, Ascendance
ob.loc: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 96, Additions/Corrections (front)
od/c1: CB, 22 Mar 2022

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