Emilio Lissón

He was sent to France to pursue his theological studies and was ordained as a Catholic priest in Paris on 8 June 1895 by Archbishop Hilarion Joseph Montéty Pailhas, C.M.

In that year, he was promoted by Pope Benedict XV to the post of Archbishop of Lima and Primate of Peru.

[1] Lissón organized and presided at several episcopal assemblies, as well as at an Archdiocesan Synod (1926) and a Provincial Council (1927).

He promoted the creation of the Apostolic Prefecture of San Gabriel of the Marañón, based in Yurimaguas, under the charge of the Passionist Fathers.

Lissón moved to Spain, devoting himself to compiling papers on the history of the Church in Peru and died there on Christmas Day of 1961.