Léon Potier de Gesvres
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Léon Potier de Gesvres | |||||||||||||||||
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| Archbishop of Bourges | |||||||||||||||||
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| Church | Catholic Church | ||||||||||||||||
| Archdiocese | Bourges | ||||||||||||||||
| Installed | 30 August 1694 | ||||||||||||||||
| Term ended | 5 March 1729 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Michel Phélypeaux de La Vrillière | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Frédéric-Jérôme de La Rochefoucauld | ||||||||||||||||
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| Consecration | 23 January 1695 by César d'Estrées | ||||||||||||||||
| Created cardinal | 29 November 1719 by Pope Clement XI | ||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 15 August 1656 | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 12 November 1744 (aged 88) | ||||||||||||||||
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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
[edit]- ^ Moréri, Louis (1732). Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique, Ou Le Mélange Curieux De L'Histoire Sacrée Et Profane (in French). p. 948.
- ^ Farges, Louis (1888). Pologne, avec une introduction et des notes (in French). p. 294.