Charles Binet
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Besançon |
Charles Henri Joseph Cardinal Binet (8 April 1869 - 15 July 1936) was a French Archbishop of Besançon and Cardinal.
Charles Binet was born in Juvigny France and was educated at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice, Paris and at the Seminary of Notre Dame des Champs. He was ordained on October 22, 1893 in Soissons. He worked in the diocese doing pastoral work until 1895. He served as a Faculty member of the Seminary of Soissons until 1914, during which his time as a faculty member he was also appointed as Diocesan archivist in 1900. He served in the French Army during World War I. He was appointed vicar general and archdeacon of the diocese of Laon on 13 February 1919.
[edit] Episcopate
Pope Benedict XV appointed him Bishop of Soissons on 16 June 1920. He was consecrated, August 24, 1920, cathedral of Soissons, by Louis Cardinal Luçon, Archbishop of Reims. He remained at his see until he was promoted to the metropolitan see of Besançon on October 31 1927.
[edit] Cardinalate
He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of S. Prisca by Pope Pius XI in the consistory of December 19, 1927. He died on 1936 and is buried in Besançon.
