Archbishop Louis-Joseph-Arthur Melanson †

Deceased

Archbishop of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
25 Mar 1879		Born
9 Jul 1905	26.2	Ordained Priest	Priest of Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada
25 Nov 1932	53.6	Appointed	Bishop of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada
22 Feb 1933	53.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada
16 Dec 1936	57.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
23 Oct 1941	62.5	Died	Archbishop of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

MicroData Summary
Louis-Joseph-Arthur Melanson
Archbishop Louis-Joseph-Arthur Melanson
(born 25 Mar 1879, died 23 Oct 1941)
Archbishop of Moncton

Event Place
Birth Place Trois-Rivières, Diocese of Trois-Rivières, Québec
Ordained Bishop Cathedral, Chatham, Diocese of Chatham, New Brunswick
Death Place Campbellton, Archdiocese of Moncton, New Brunswick
Buried Place (Original) Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption, Cathedral, Moncton, Archdiocese of Moncton, New Brunswick

a priest for 36.2 years
a bishop for 8.6 years

Ordained Priest by:
Bishop Thomas Francis Barry †
Bishop of Chatham, New Brunswick
Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Andrea Cassulo †
Titular Archbishop of Leontopolis in Augustamnica
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop James Charles McGuigan †
Archbishop of Regina, Saskatchewan
Bishop Patrice-Alexandre Chiasson, C.I.M. †
Bishop of Chatham, New Brunswick

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Andrea Cassulo † (1914)
Titular Archbishop of Leontopolis in Augustamnica
Archbishop Alfonso Maria Mistrangelo, Sch. P. † (1893)
Archbishop of Firenze {Florence}
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
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 Albini LeBlanc † (1941)

External Link(s):

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Source(s):

b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1933, Number 6

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