Guillaume-René Cardinal Meignan †

Deceased

Archbishop of Tours

Cardinal-Priest of SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Apr 1827		Born	Denazé
13 Jun 1840	13.2	Ordained Priest	Priest
17 Sep 1864	37.4	Appointed	Bishop of Châlons, France
27 Mar 1865	38.0	Confirmed	Bishop of Châlons, France
1 May 1865	38.1	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Châlons, France
20 Sep 1882	55.4	Appointed	Bishop of Arras (, Boulogne, e Saint-Omer), France
25 Sep 1882	55.5	Confirmed	Bishop of Arras (, Boulogne, e Saint-Omer), France
10 Jan 1884	56.7	Appointed	Archbishop of Tours, France
24 Mar 1884	56.9	Confirmed	Archbishop of Tours, France
27 May 1884	57.1	Installed	Archbishop of Tours, France
16 Jan 1893	65.8	Elevated to Cardinal
16 Jan 1893	65.8	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio
20 Jan 1896	68.8	Died	Archbishop of Tours, France

First Vatican Council: Council Father
Consistory - January 1893: Created Cardinal

a priest for 55.6 years
a bishop for 30.7 years
a cardinal for 3.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Henri Maret †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Charles-Martial Cardinal Allemand-Lavigerie †
Bishop Louis-Charles Buquet †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Guillaume-René Cardinal Meignan † (1865)
Archbishop Henri Maret † (1861)
François-Nicholas-Madeleine Cardinal Morlot † (1839)
Bishop Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph Forbin-Janson † (1824)
Gustave-Maximilien-Juste Cardinal de Croÿ-Solre † (1820)
Archbishop Jean-Charles de Coucy † (1790)
Antonio Cardinal Dugnani † (1785)
Carlo Cardinal Rezzonico, Jr. † (1773)
Giovanni Francesco Cardinal Albani † (1760)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Consecrator of:
Guillaume-Marie-Joseph Cardinal Labouré †
Bishop André-Hubert Juteau †
Bishop Alfred-Casimir-Alexis Williez †
François-Désiré Cardinal Mathieu †
Archbishop René-François Renou †
Archbishop Louis-François Sueur †

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