Bishop Jacques Louis Marie Joseph Fihey †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Coutances (-Avranches), France

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
1 Oct 1931		Born
29 Jun 1955	23.7	Ordained Priest	Priest of Nantes, France
31 May 1977	45.6	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Marseille, France
31 May 1977	45.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Remesiana
10 Jul 1977	45.7	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Remesiana
12 Feb 1983	51.3	Appointed	Bishop of France, Military
22 Apr 1989	57.5	Appointed	Bishop of Coutances (-Avranches), France
2 Oct 2006	75.0	Retired	Bishop of Coutances (-Avranches), France
12 Mar 2017	85.4	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Coutances (-Avranches), France

MicroData Summary
Jacques Louis Marie Joseph Fihey
Bishop Jacques Louis Marie Joseph Fihey
(born 1 Oct 1931, died 12 Mar 2017)
Bishop Emeritus of Coutances (-Avranches)

Event Place
Birth Place Narbonne
Ordained Bishop St. Peter, Cathedral, Nantes, Diocese of Nantes
Death Place Nantes, Diocese of Nantes
Buried Place (Original) St-Jean’s Chapel, Notre-Dame, Cathedral, Coutances, Diocese of Coutances (-Avranches)

a priest for 61.7 years
a bishop for 39.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Michel-Louis Vial †
Bishop of Nantes
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Roger Marie Élie Etchegaray †
Archbishop of Marseille
Bishop Joseph-Marie-Henri Rabine †
Bishop of Cahors

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Michel-Louis Vial † (1961)
Bishop of Nantes
Pierre-Marie Paul Cardinal Gerlier † (1929)
Archbishop of Lyon (-Vienne)
Louis-Ernest Cardinal Dubois † (1901)
Archbishop of Paris
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:
Bishop Michel Marie Jacques Dubost, C.I.M. (1989)
Archbishop Hippolyte Louis Jean Simon † (1996)
Bishop Michel Léon Émile Santier (2001)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Jean-Pierre Bernard Cardinal Ricard (1993)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Narbonne
Ordained Bishop	St. Peter, Cathedral, Nantes, Diocese of Nantes
Death Place	Nantes, Diocese of Nantes
Buried Place (Original)	St-Jean’s Chapel, Notre-Dame, Cathedral, Coutances, Diocese of Coutances (-Avranches)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q527593

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 2 Oct 2006
d: CB, 13 Mar 2017
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 234, Necrology (back)
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 42, Number 2,829
23.loc: AJ, 13 Jan 2022

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