Louis-Joseph Maurin

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Styles of
Louis-Joseph Cardinal Maurin
Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Lyon


His Eminence Louis-Joseph Cardinal Maurin (15 February 1859 - 16 November 1936) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon.

Maurin was ordained to the priesthood on 8 April 1882 in Rome. He did pastoral work in the diocese of Marseille from 1882 until 1911. On 1 September 1911 Pope Pius X appointed him Bishop of Grenoble, being consecrated by Pierre Cardinal Andrieu in October of that year.

He remained in Grenoble until Pope Benedict XV appointed him Archbishop of Lyon on 1 December 1916. Three days later he was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio. Cardinal Maurin voted in the conclave of 1922 that elected Pope Pius XI.

He died in office on 16 November 1936.

Preceded by
Hector Cardinal Sévin
Archbishop of Lyon
1 December 191616 November 1936
Succeeded by
Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier