Originally posted by Charles Bransom:
To answer your question, in 1929 Father Antonin Fernand Drapier,O.P., was named Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto and Apostolic Delegate in Mesopotamia. On 22 December of that year he was consecrated bishop at Mossul, in the Dominican church, by Bishop Francis Daoud, Chaldean eparch of Amadiyah, assisted by Archbishop Georges Dallal, Syriac Archbishop of Mossul, and Archbishop Jacques Nessimian, Armenian Archbishop of Mardin.
Dear Charles,
That is interesting, thank you for providing the information. I had a question, though. I would've thought, simply out of deference for the position, an Archbishop would always be the principle consecrator in an episcopal ordination, with a Bishop being one of the assistants. Here, however, the Archbishops were assistants to a Bishop. Granted there are no differences essentially between bishops and archbishops, is it a rare occurance for the traditional order of precedence not to be adhered to in an episcopal ordination, or does this sort of thing happen often in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches?
Also, do you know according to which rite the apostolic delegate was ordained? I would think he would be a Latin bishop, and thus should be ordained according to the Latin rite, but then you've got a Chaldean, a Syrian, and an Armenian. Was the ordination performed according to the Latin or Chaldean rite?
