Léon Cardinal Potier de Gesvres †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Bourges, France

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Aug 1656		Born
29 May 1694	37.7	Selected	Archbishop of Bourges, France
30 Aug 1694	38.0	Confirmed	Archbishop of Bourges, France
23 Jan 1695	38.4	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Bourges, France
29 Nov 1719	63.2	Elevated to Cardinal
5 Mar 1729	72.5	Resigned	Archbishop of Bourges, France
12 Nov 1744	88.2	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Bourges, France

MicroData Summary for Léon Potier de Gesvres
(VIAF: 44371923; WikiData: Q3271272)
Léon Cardinal Potier de Gesvres (born 16 Aug 1656, died 12 Nov 1744) Archbishop Emeritus of Bourges

Consistory - 1719: Created Cardinal
Conclave - 1721: Unable to Participate
Conclave - 1724: Unable to Participate
Conclave - 1730: Unable to Participate
Conclave - 1740: Unable to Participate

Event Place
Birth Place Paris, Archdiocese of Paris

a bishop for 49.8 years
a cardinal for 24.9 years

Principal Consecrator:
César Cardinal d’Estrées †
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Jacques Potier de Novion †
Bishop of Évreux
Bishop François Bochart de Saron de Champigny †
Bishop of Clermont

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

César Cardinal d’Estrées † (1655)
Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
Archbishop Henri de Béthune † (1630)
Archbishop of Bordeaux
Archbishop Jean-François de Gondi † (1623)
Archbishop of Paris
François Cardinal d’Escoubleau de Sourdis † (1599)
Archbishop of Bordeaux
François Cardinal de Joyeuse †
Archbishop of Toulouse

Principal Consecrator of:
Bishop François de Carbonnel de Canisy † (1696)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Paris, Archdiocese of Paris

Source(s):

b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 29 Nov 1719
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 5, Page 122
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1695, Number 2

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