Étienne-René Cardinal Potier de Gesvres †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Beauvais, France

Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Jan 1697		Born
1725²	27.9	Ordained Priest	Priest
18 Feb 1728	31.1	Selected	Bishop of Beauvais, France
24 Apr 1728	31.3	Confirmed	Bishop of Beauvais, France
6 Jun 1728	31.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Beauvais, France
5 Apr 1756	59.2	Elevated to Cardinal
2 Aug 1758	61.5	Installed	Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura
22 May 1772	75.3	Retired	Bishop of Beauvais, France
24 Jul 1774	77.5	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Beauvais, France

Note(s): ² Month Uncertain

MicroData Summary for Étienne-René Potier de Gesvres
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Étienne-René Cardinal Potier de Gesvres (born 2 Jan 1697, died 24 Jul 1774) Bishop Emeritus of Beauvais

Consistory - 1756: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1758: Participated
Conclave - 1769: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Paris, Archdiocese of Paris

a priest for 49.5 years
a bishop for 46.1 years
a cardinal for 18.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Louis de La Vergne-Montenard de Tressan †
Archbishop of Rouen
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Nicolas-Charles de Saulx-Tavannes †
Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne
Bishop Charles-Antoine de la Roche-Aymon †
Titular Bishop of Sarepta

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Louis de La Vergne-Montenard de Tressan † (1718)
Archbishop of Rouen
Bishop Olivier Jégou de Kervilio † (1694)
Bishop of Tréguier
Archbishop Jean-Baptiste-Michel Colbert de Saint-Pouange † (1675)
Archbishop of Toulouse
Archbishop Charles-Maurice Le Tellier † (1668)
Archbishop of Reims
Antonio Cardinal Barberini (Jr.), O.S.Io.Hieros. † (1655)
Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina
Bishop Giovanni Battista Scanaroli (Scannaroli) † (1630)
Titular Bishop of Sidon
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Consecrator of:
Jean-Baptiste Cardinal de Belloy-Morangle † (1752)
Bishop Jacques de Grasse † (1755)
Bishop Bl. François-Joseph de La Rochefoucauld-Bayers † (1772)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Frédéric-Jérôme Cardinal de La Rochefoucauld † (1729)
Bishop Armand Bazin de Bezons † (1731)
Bishop François de Fitz-James † (1739)
Bishop Antoine de Lastic † (1740)
Archbishop Bernardin-Louis Foucquet † (1741)
Louis-Joseph Cardinal de Montmorency-Laval † (1754)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Paris, Archdiocese of Paris

Source(s):

b/c2+: LC
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 5 Apr 1756
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1728, Number 34

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