Type: | Cardinal |
Honorific Prefix: | His Eminence |
Stanislas Touchet | |
Bishop of Orléans | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Diocese: | Orléans |
See: | Orléans |
Appointed: | 18 May 1894 |
Term End: | 23 September 1926 |
Predecessor: | Pierre-Hector Coullié |
Successor: | Jules-Marie-Victor Courcoux |
Other Post: | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva (1922-26) |
Ordination: | 29 June 1872 |
Consecration: | 15 July 1894 |
Consecrated By: | Flavien-Abel-Antoinin Hugonin |
Cardinal: | 11 December 1922 |
Created Cardinal By: | Pope Pius XI |
Rank: | Cardinal-Priest |
Birth Name: | Stanislas-Arthur-Xavier Touchet |
Birth Date: | 13 November 1842 |
Birth Place: | Soliers, French Kingdom |
Death Place: | Orléans, French Third Republic |
Buried: | Orléans Cathedral |
Parents: | Louis Modeste Touchet Stéphanie Félicité Ducellier |
Motto: | Jesus Maria spes ac robur |
Stanislas Touchet | |
Dipstyle: | His Eminence |
Offstyle: | Your Eminence |
See: | none |
Stanislas-Arthur-Xavier Touchet (13 November 1842 – 23 September 1926) was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Orléans from 1894 until his death, and became a cardinal in 1922.
Stanislas Touchet was born in Soliers, and studied at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris. He was ordained to the priesthood on 13 June 1872, and then did pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Besançon until 1894.
On 18 May 1894, Touchet was appointed Bishop of Orléans by Pope Leo XIII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 15 July from Bishop Flavien-Abel Hugonin, with Bishops Abel-Anastase Germain and Charles-Bonaventure Theuret serving as co-consecrators, in the Besançon Cathedral.
After becoming an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on 19 June 1922, Touchet was created Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva by Pope Pius XI in the consistory of 11 December of that same year.[1] He would serve as Bishop of Orléans for a period of thirty-two years.
He was also a Knight of the Legion of Honour.[2]
He died in Orléans, at the age of 77, and is buried in its Cathedral.
Some of the Books Written by him: