Pierre-Hector Coullié
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Pierre-Hector Cardinal Coullié (born March 14, 1829 in Paris , † September 12, 1912 in Lyon ) was Archbishop of Lyon .
Life
He attended the St. Sulpice seminary in Paris and was ordained a priest on December 23, 1854 . After his ordination he taught as a professor at a boys' seminary in the Archdiocese of Paris and between 1854 and 1876 was pastor in the churches of Ste-Marguerite, Saint-Eustache and Notre-Dame-des-Victoires .
He was appointed titular bishop of Sidon and coadjutor bishop of Orléans on September 29, 1876 . The Archbishop of Paris , Joseph Hippolyte Cardinal Guibert OMI , donated him episcopal ordination on November 19 of the same year; Co-consecrators were the Archbishop of Orléans, Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup , and the Bishop of Nancy and Toul , Joseph Alfred Foulon . With the death of Félix Dupanloup on October 11, 1878, Coullié succeeded him as Bishop of Orléans. On June 15, 1893, he was appointed Archbishop of Lyon and thus Primate of France.
On April 19, 1897 Pope Leo XIII took him . as a cardinal priest with the titular church Santa Trinità dei Monti in the college of cardinals . He took part in the 1903 conclave that Pope Pius X elected.
Pierre-Hector Coullié died in Lyon on September 12, 1912 at the age of 83 and was buried in Lyon Cathedral.
Web links
- Coullié, Pierre-Hector. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed December 14, 2016.
- Entry on Pierre-Hector Coullié (Couillié) on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on December 14, 2016.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Alfred Cardinal Foulon |
Archbishop of Lyon 1893–1912 |
Hector-Irénée Cardinal Sévin |
| Félix Dupanloup |
Bishop of Orléans 1878-1893 |
Stanislas Touchet |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coullié, Pierre-Hector |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Couillié, Pierre-Hector |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cardinal and bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1912 |
| Place of death | Lyon |