Guillaume-René Cardinal Meignan †

Deceased

Archbishop of Tours, France

Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
12 Apr 1817		Born
13 Jun 1840	23.1	Ordained Priest	Priest
12 Oct 1864	47.5	Selected	Bishop of Châlons, France
27 Mar 1865	47.9	Confirmed	Bishop of Châlons, France
1 May 1865	48.0	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Châlons, France
23 Sep 1882	65.4	Selected	Bishop of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer), France
25 Sep 1882	65.4	Confirmed	Bishop of Arras (-Boulogne-Saint-Omer), France
21 Feb 1884	66.8	Selected	Archbishop of Tours, France
24 Mar 1884	66.9	Confirmed	Archbishop of Tours, France
27 May 1884	67.1	Installed	Archbishop of Tours, France
16 Jan 1893	75.7	Elevated to Cardinal
15 Jun 1893	76.1	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
20 Jan 1896	78.7	Died	Archbishop of Tours, France

MicroData Summary for Guillaume-René Meignan
(VIAF: 22133177; WikiData: Q2255972)
Guillaume-René Cardinal Meignan (born 12 Apr 1817, died 20 Jan 1896) Archbishop of Tours

First Vatican Council: Council Father
Consistory - January 1893: Created Cardinal

Event Place
Birth Place Denazé, Diocese of Le Mans
Ordained Bishop Notre-Dame, Paris, Archdiocese of Paris
Death Place Tours, Archdiocese of Tours
Buried Place (Original) Cathedral, Tours, Archdiocese of Tours

a priest for 55.6 years
a bishop for 30.7 years
a cardinal for 3.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Henri Louis Charles Maret †
Titular Bishop of Sura
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Charles-Martial-Allemand Lavigerie †
Bishop of Nancy (-Toul)
Bishop Louis-Charles Buquet †
Titular Bishop of Parium

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Henri Louis Charles Maret † (1861)
Titular Bishop of Sura
François-Nicholas-Madeleine Cardinal Morlot † (1839)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph Forbin-Janson † (1824)
Bishop of Nancy (-Toul)
Archbishop Gustave-Maximilien-Juste de Croÿ-Solre † (1820)
Archbishop of Rouen
Archbishop Jean-Charles de Coucy † (1790)
Archbishop of Reims
Archbishop Antonio Dugnani † (1785)
Titular Archbishop of Rhodus
Carlo Cardinal Rezzonico (Jr.) † (1773)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Giovanni Francesco Cardinal Albani † (1760)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
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:
Guillaume-Marie-Joseph Cardinal Labouré † (1885)
Bishop André-Hubert Juteau † (1889)
Bishop Alfred-Casimir-Alexis Williez † (1892)
François-Désiré Cardinal Mathieu † (1893)
Archbishop René-François Renou † (1893)
Archbishop Louis-François Sueur † (1894)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Denazé, Diocese of Le Mans
Ordained Bishop	Notre-Dame, Paris, Archdiocese of Paris
Death Place	Tours, Archdiocese of Tours
Buried Place (Original)	Cathedral, Tours, Archdiocese of Tours

Source(s):

c2+: LC
b/c2: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 129, and Page 192
b: Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 8, Page 573, and Page 53
b: The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, 16 Jan 1893
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1865, Number 8

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