Joseph-Christian-Ernest Bourret

Styles of
Joseph-Christian-Ernest Bourret
Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Rodez

Joseph Christian Ernest Bourret (9 December 1827 in the hamlet of Labro, near Saint-Étienne-de-Lugdarès, Ardèche - 10 July 1896, Rodez) was a French churchman, bishop and cardinal.

Life

Joseph-Christian-Ernest Bourret was ordained into the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri as priest in 1851 in Paris. He was ordained bishop of Rodez in 1871, and made a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1893.

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