Type: | Cardinal |
Honorific Prefix: | His Eminence |
Victor-Félix Bernadou | |
Archbishop of Sens | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Sens |
See: | Sens |
Appointed: | 12 July 1867 |
Enthroned: | 3 September 1867 |
Term End: | 15 November 1891 |
Predecessor: | Mellon de Jolly |
Successor: | Pierre-Marie-Etienne-Gustave Ardin |
Other Post: | Cardinal-Priest of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio (1887-91) |
Ordination: | 19 December 1840 |
Ordained By: | Jean-Marie-Léon Dizien |
Consecration: | 29 June 1862 |
Consecrated By: | Jean-Joseph-Marie-Eugène de Jerphanion |
Cardinal: | 7 June 1886 |
Created Cardinal By: | Pope Leo XIII |
Rank: | Cardinal-Priest |
Birth Name: | Victor-Félix Bernadou |
Birth Date: | 25 June 1816 |
Birth Place: | Castres, French Kingdom |
Death Place: | Sens, French Third Republic |
Buried: | Sens Cathedral |
Parents: | Jean Louis Bernadou Marguerite Elisabeth Vincens |
Previous Post: | Bishop of Gap (1862-67) |
Victor-Félix Bernadou (25 June 1816 - 15 November 1891) was a French cardinal and Archbishop of Sens.[1]
Born in Castres, he was ordained to the priesthood on 19 December 1840. By 7 April 1862 he was appointed bishop of Gap, received his episcopal consecration on 29 June 1862 from Archbishop Jean-Joseph-Marie-Eugène de Jerphanion, with bishops Louis-Antoine Pavy and Jean-Jacques Bardou serving as co-consecrators. He was promoted to metropolitan see of Sens on 12 July 1867,[2] where he remained until his death.[3] He took part in First Vatican Council. On 7 July 1886 Pope Leo XIII created him Cardinal Priest.
He died in Sens, and was buried in Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Sens..