Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lécot

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Styles of Victor Cardinal Lecot
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Bordeaux et Bazes

His Eminence Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Cardinal Lécot (8 January 1831 - 19 December 1908) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Bordeaux et Bazes.

Lecot was born in Montescourt-Lizerolles in the Diocese of Soissons.

[edit] Episcopate

Pope Pius IX appointed him as the Bishop of Dijon on 10 June 1886. He served in Dijion until 1890 when Pope Leo XIII appointed him to the serve as the Metropolitan bishop of Bordeaux on June 26, 1890.

[edit] Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal Priest of S. Pudenziana in the consistory of 12 June 1893. He took part in the conclave of 1903 that elected Pope Pius X