Robert-Joseph Cardinal Coffy †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Marseille, France

Cardinal-Priest of San Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
24 Oct 1920		Born
28 Oct 1944	24.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Annecy, France
11 Feb 1967	46.2	Appointed	Bishop of Gap, France
23 Apr 1967	46.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Gap, France
15 Jun 1974	53.6	Appointed	Archbishop of Albi (-Castres-Lavaur), France
13 Apr 1985	64.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Marseille, France
28 Jun 1991	70.6	Elevated to Cardinal
28 Jun 1991	70.6	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort
22 Apr 1995	74.4	Retired	Archbishop of Marseille, France
15 Jul 1995	74.7	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Marseille, France

MicroData Summary for Robert-Joseph Coffy
(VIAF: 14767859; WikiData: Q1750344)
Robert-Joseph Cardinal Coffy (born 24 Oct 1920, died 15 Jul 1995) Archbishop Emeritus of Marseille

Consistory - 1991: Created Cardinal

Event Place
Birth Place Le Biot

a priest for 50.7 years
a bishop for 28.2 years
a cardinal for 4.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Jean-Baptiste-Étienne Sauvage †
Bishop of Annecy
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop André Charles Collini †
Bishop of Ajaccio
Bishop Paul-Marie François Rousset, Ist. del Prado †
Titular Bishop of Utimma

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Jean-Baptiste-Étienne Sauvage † (1962)
Bishop of Annecy
Achille Cardinal Liénart † (1928)
Bishop of Lille
Bishop Charles-Albert-Joseph Lecomte † (1921)
Bishop of Amiens
Bishop Héctor Raphaël Quilliet † (1914)
Bishop of Lille
Archbishop Jean-Arthur Chollet † (1910)
Archbishop of Cambrai
Archbishop Louis-Ernest Dubois † (1901)
Archbishop of Bourges
Bishop Marie-Prosper-Adolphe de Bonfils † (1898)
Bishop of Le Mans
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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:
Archbishop Georges Paul Pontier (1988)
Jean-Pierre Bernard Cardinal Ricard (1993)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop René-Alexandre Dupanloup † (1970)
Archbishop Raymond Joseph Louis Bouchex † (1972)
Bishop Raymond Gaston Joseph Séguy † (1981)
Bishop Guy Marie (Claude) Bagnard (1987)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Le Biot

Source(s):

ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 127
ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 142
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 144
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

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