Alexis-Henri-Marie Lépicier

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Alexis Cardinal Lépicier (1930)
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Alexis-Henri-Marie Cardinal Lépicier OSM (born February 28, 1863 in Vaucouleurs , † May 20, 1936 in Rome ) was a Cardinal Curia of the Roman Catholic Church . From 1913 to 1920 he was also Prior General of the Servite Order.

Life

Lépicier joined the Order of the Servites on March 1, 1878 in London . He attended the seminary of St-Sulpice de Paris and studied at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome . On September 19, 1885, he was ordained a priest in London . From 1890 to 1892, as a novice master, he helped the novices grow into religious life and taught dogmatics at his alma mater from 1892 to 1913 . As the 94th Prior General , he led his order between 1913 and 1920, after he had already become its Procurator General in 1901. From 1912 to 1913 he was Apostolic Visitator and Apostolic Delegate in Scotland .

He was on May 22, 1924 by Pope Pius XI. appointed titular archbishop of Tarsus . The Prefect of the Congregation De Propaganda Fide , Cardinal Wilhelmus Marinus van Rossum CSsR , donated him episcopal ordination on May 29 of the same year ; Co-consecrators were Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani , Secretary of the Congregation De Propaganda Fide , and Raffaele Carlo Rossi OCD , Assessor of the Consistorial Congregation . On June 11, 1924, he became the Apostolic Visitator of the East Indian Dioceses , which were dependent on the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. In 1927 he was an Apostolic Visitator in Abyssinia and Eritrea .

On December 19, 1927, Pius XI took him. as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Susanna in the college of cardinals . From 1928 until his resignation on December 31, 1935, he headed the religious congregation as cardinal prefect . He also represented Pius XI. several times as papal legate, including at the National Eucharistic Congress of Carthage in 1930.

Cardinal Lépicier died on May 20, 1936 after a serious illness in Rome at the age of 73 and was buried in the grave of his order in the Campo di Verano cemetery.

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predecessor Office successor
Camillo Cardinal Laurenti Prefect of the Congregation for Religious
Affairs 1928–1935 		Vincenzo Cardinal Lapuma
personal data
SURNAME Lépicier, Alexis-Henri-Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lépicier, Alexis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cardinal and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Vaucouleurs
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1936
Place of death Rome