Robert Marie Jean Victor de Chevigny

Robert Marie Jean Victor de Boissonneaux de Chevigny CSSp ( born August 2, 1920 in Besançon, † 11 June 2011) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Nouakchott.

Life

Robert Marie Jean Victor de Boissonneaux de Chevigny joined the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, and received on 3 October 1948, the ordination.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on 21 December 1973 Bishop of Nouakchott. The Archbishop of Dakar, Hyacinthe Thiandoum, consecrated him bishop on February 23, 1974; Were co-consecrators Michel Jules -Joseph -Marie Bernard CSSp, Archbishop Emeritus of Nouakchott, and Armand François M. Le Bourgeois CIM, Bishop of Autun, Chalon -sur- Saône- Mâcon- Cluny.

On 10 July 1995, Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation age-related.