Emilio Juan Francisco Lissón y Chávez, C.M. (24 May 1872 - 25 December 1961), was an

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, Peru.

Early years

Lissón was born in the city of

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to a strongly Catholic family. He entered the

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, commonly referred to as the Vincentian Fathers, in 1891. He was sent to France to pursue his theological studies and was ordained as a

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on 8 June 1895 by Archbishop Hilarion Joseph Montéty Pailhas, C.M.

Episcopacy

In April 1909, Lissón was appointed by

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as the Bishop of Chachapoyas. He was

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for this office the following 19 September. In 1911, during the course of a trip to

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, he visited the General

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of the

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to request help for the work in his diocese. As a result, six priests and six

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of that congregation were assigned to his territory in 1913, and worked there until 1918. In that year, he was promoted by

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to the post of Archbishop of Lima and

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of Peru.

Episcopal Work

Lissón organized and presided at several episcopal assemblies, as well as at an Archdiocesan

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(1926) and a Provincial Council (1927). He promoted the creation of the

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of San Gabriel of the Marañón, based in

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, under the charge of the Passionist Fathers. Lissón resigned his office on 3 March 1931. The

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then named Mariano Holguín, O.F.M., the Bishop of Arequipa, as the

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of the archdiocese, until 1933 when Pedro Pascual Francisco Farfán was named archbishop. Lissón moved to Spain, devoting himself to compiling papers on the history of the Church in Peru and died there on

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of 1961.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lisson, Emilio 1872 births 1961 deaths People from Arequipa 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Peru Roman Catholic archbishops of Lima Vincentian bishops