Bishop Alphonse Charles Kirmann, S.M.A. †

Deceased

Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Sassandra, Côte d’Ivoire

Titular Bishop of Assuras

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
15 Aug 1887		Born
25 Oct 1908	21.1	Entered	Member of Society of African Missions
10 Jul 1910	22.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of African Missions
9 Apr 1940	52.6	Appointed	Vicar Apostolic of Sassandra, Côte d’Ivoire
9 Apr 1940	52.6	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Assuras
22 Sep 1940	53.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Assuras
18 Feb 1955	67.5	Resigned	Vicar Apostolic of Sassandra, Côte d’Ivoire
25 Mar 1955	67.6	Died	Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Sassandra, Côte d’Ivoire

MicroData Summary for Alphonse Charles Kirmann
(WikiData: Q23894797)
Bishop Alphonse Charles Kirmann S.M.A. (born 15 Aug 1887, died 25 Mar 1955) Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Sassandra

Event Place
Birth Place Bischoffsheim, Diocese of Strasbourg, France
Ordained Bishop Abengourou
Death Place Daloa, Vicariate Apostolic of Sassandra

a priest for 44.7 years
a bishop for 14.5 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Jean-Baptiste Boivin, S.M.A. †
Titular Bishop of Onuphis
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Hubertus Josephus Paulissen, S.M.A. †
Titular Bishop of Pomaria
Assisted by:
Father Louis Wach, S.M.A. †
Prefect of Korhogo

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Jean-Baptiste Boivin, S.M.A. † (1939)
Titular Bishop of Onuphis
Bishop François-Jean-Marie Serrand † (1923)
Bishop of Saint-Brieuc (-Tréguier)
Alexis-Armand Cardinal Charost † (1913)
Archbishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo)
Archbishop Auguste-René-Marie Dubourg † (1893)
Archbishop of Rennes (-Dol-Saint-Malo)
Bishop Pierre-Marie-Frédéric Fallières † (1890)
Bishop of Saint-Brieuc (-Tréguier)
Bishop Pierre-Marie-Etienne-Gustave Ardin † (1880)
Bishop of La Rochelle (-Saintes)
Bishop Théodore Legain † (1871)
Bishop of Montauban
Archbishop Florian-Jules-Félix Desprez † (1851)
Archbishop of Toulouse (-Narbonne)
Archbishop René-François Régnier † (1842)
Archbishop of Cambrai
Archbishop Denis-Auguste Affre † (1840)
Archbishop of Paris
Hugues-Robert-Jean-Charles Cardinal de la Tour d’Auvergne-Lauraquais † (1802)
Bishop of Arras
Archbishop Jean-Armand de Bessuéjouls Roquelaure † (1754)
Archbishop of Mechelen
Archbishop Christophe de Beaumont du Repaire † (1741)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Louis-Jacques Chapt de Rastignac † (1722)
Archbishop of Tours
Bishop Jean-François Salgues de Valderies de Lescure † (1699)
Bishop of Luçon
Archbishop Louis-Antoine de Noailles † (1679)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop François de Harlay de Champvallon † (1651)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Nicolò Guidi di Bagno † (1644)
Titular Archbishop of Athenae
Antonio (Marcello) Cardinal Barberini (Sr.), O.F.M. Cap. † (1625)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
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 Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Joseph-Paul Strebler, S.M.A. † (1946)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Bischoffsheim, Diocese of Strasbourg, France
Ordained Bishop	Abengourou
Death Place	Daloa, Vicariate Apostolic of Sassandra

Source(s):

c2+: LC
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1940, Number 57
b: SMA Nos Défunts, 3 Sep 2023

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