Type: | Cardinal |
Honorific Prefix: | His Eminence |
Léon-Benoît-Charles Thomas | |
Archbishop of Rouen | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Rouen |
See: | Rouen |
Appointed: | 24 March 1884 |
Term End: | 9 March 1894 |
Predecessor: | Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose |
Successor: | Guillaume-Marie-Romain Sourrieau |
Other Post: | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Nuova (1893-94) |
Ordination: | 21 December 1850 |
Consecration: | 15 May 1867 |
Consecrated By: | Jean-Baptiste-François-Anne-Thomas Landriot |
Cardinal: | 16 January 1893 |
Created Cardinal By: | Pope Leo XIII |
Rank: | Cardinal-Priest |
Birth Name: | Léon-Benoît-Charles Thomas |
Birth Date: | 30 May 1826 |
Birth Place: | Paray-le-Monial, Autun, French Kingdom |
Death Place: | Rouen, French Third Republic |
Buried: | Rouen Cathedral |
Previous Post: | Bishop of La Rochelle (1867-84) |
Motto: | Nil forties nil dulcius |
Coat Of Arms: | Armoiries cardinal Leon Benoit Charles Thomas.svg |
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.
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.