Léon-Benoît-Charles Thomas
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Léon-Benoît-Charles Thomas | |
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Archbishop of Rouen | |
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Church | Roman Catholic Church |
Archdiocese | Rouen |
See | Rouen |
Appointed | 24 March 1884 |
Term ended | 9 March 1894 |
Predecessor | Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose |
Successor | Guillaume-Marie-Romain Sourrieau |
Other post(s) | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Nuova (1893-94) |
Previous post(s) | Bishop of La Rochelle (1867-84) |
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Ordination | 21 December 1850 |
Consecration | 15 May 1867 by Jean-Baptiste-François-Anne-Thomas Landriot |
Created cardinal | 16 January 1893 by Pope Leo XIII |
Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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Born | Léon-Benoît-Charles Thomas 30 May 1826 |
Died | 9 March 1894 Rouen, French Third Republic | (aged 67)
Buried | Rouen Cathedral |
Motto | Nil forties nil dulcius |
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Léon-Benoît-Charles Thomas (1826–1894) was a French cardinal.[1]
He studied in Paris and Rome and earned a doctorate in theology in 1856.[1]
He served as Bishop of La Rochelle (1867–1883) and Archbishop of Rouen (1883–1894).[2]
He died in 1894 and was buried in the chapel of Sainte-Marguerite in Rouen; bombings during WWII damaged his tomb, and his remains were transferred to the crypt of the archbishops in the chapel of the Sainte-Vierge.[1]
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