Bishop Léon-Raymond Soulier †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Limoges, France

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Jan 1924		Born
7 Sep 1947	23.6	Ordained Priest	Priest
22 Jun 1971	47.4	Appointed	Bishop of Pamiers (-Couserans-Mirepoix), France
12 Sep 1971	47.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Pamiers (-Couserans-Mirepoix), France
9 Jul 1987	63.4	Appointed	Coadjutor Bishop of Limoges, France
13 Jul 1988	64.5	Succeeded	Bishop of Limoges, France
24 Oct 2000	76.7	Retired	Bishop of Limoges, France
25 Dec 2016	92.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Limoges, France

MicroData Summary
Léon-Raymond Soulier
Bishop Léon-Raymond Soulier
(born 13 Jan 1924, died 25 Dec 2016)
Bishop Emeritus of Limoges

Event Place
Birth Place Villechailles
Death Place Chirac

a priest for 69.2 years
a bishop for 45.2 years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop René-Jean-Prosper-Bruno Boudon †
Bishop of Mende
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Roger Joseph Tort †
Bishop of Montauban
Bishop Sabin-Marie Saint-Gaudens †
Titular Bishop of Lapda

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop René-Jean-Prosper-Bruno Boudon † (1957)
Bishop of Mende
Bishop Emile-Charles-Raymond Pirolley † (1951)
Bishop of Nancy (-Toul)
Archbishop Maurice-Louis Dubourg † (1929)
Archbishop of Besançon
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cardinal Binet † (1920)
Archbishop of Besançon
Louis-Henri-Joseph Cardinal Luçon † (1888)
Archbishop of Reims
Bishop Charles-Emile Freppel † (1870)
Bishop of Angers
François-Auguste-Ferdinand Cardinal Donnet † (1835)
Archbishop of Bordeaux
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:
Bishop François Marie Joseph Pascal Louis Blondel (2000)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Albert-Marie Joseph Cyrille de Monléon, O.P. † (1988)
Philippe Nakellentuba Cardinal Ouédraogo (1996)
Bishop Patrick Le Gal (1997)
Archbishop Christophe Dufour (2001)

Event	Place
Birth Place	Villechailles
Death Place	Chirac

External Link(s):

VIAF: 222108545
WikiData: Q514469

Source(s):

d: CB, 26 Dec 2016
bp/dp: CB, 2 Jan 2017
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)
Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 15, Number 774

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