Léon Potier de Gesvres

His Eminence

Léon Potier de Gesvres
Archbishop of Bourges
ChurchCatholic Church
ArchdioceseBourges
Installed30 August 1694
Term ended5 March 1729
PredecessorMichel Phélypeaux de La Vrillière
SuccessorFrédéric-Jérôme de La Rochefoucauld
Orders
Consecration23 January 1695
by César d'Estrées
Created cardinal29 November 1719
by Pope Clement XI
Personal details
Born(1656-08-15)15 August 1656
Paris, Kingdom of France
Died12 November 1744(1744-11-12) (aged 88)
Coat of armsLéon Potier de Gesvres's coat of arms
Ordination history
History
Episcopal consecration
Principal consecratorCésar d'Estrées
Co-consecratorsJacques Potier de Novion,
François Bochart de Saron
Date23 January 1695
Cardinalate
Elevated byPope Clement XI
Date29 November 1719
Episcopal succession
Bishops consecrated by Léon Potier de Gesvres as principal consecrator
François de Carbonnel de Canisy25 March 1696

Léon Potier de Gesvres (15 August 1656 – 12 November 1744) was a French Roman Catholic prelate who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Bourges from 1694 to 1729.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Moréri, Louis (1732). Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique, Ou Le Mélange Curieux De L'Histoire Sacrée Et Profane (in French). p. 948.
  2. ^ Farges, Louis (1888). Pologne, avec une introduction et des notes (in French). p. 294.


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