Vocation : Religion : Ecclesiastics/ western

Pierre_Petit_de_Julleville

Pierre Petit de Julleville, was a French Catholic priest, who became archbishop of Rouen. On 18 February 1946 Pope Pius XII elevated him into the College of Cardinals.
The baptismal name of Pierre Petit de Julleville was Pierre-André-Charles. He attended the seminary of Saint-Sulpice, and, the University of Sorbonne, both in Paris. Pierre Petit de Julleville was ordained on 4 July 1903 in Paris. After ordination he continued the following two years additional theological studies. In 1905 he was named faculty member of the Grand Seminary of Issy Paris, where he taught from 1905 to 1910. He was Canon of the cathedral chapter and superior of the School of Sainte-Croix-de-Neuilly, Neuilly, from 1910 to 1914, and, after the war from 1918 to 1927. During World War I, in all the war years 1914–1918, Pierre Petit de Julleville was military chaplain.Pierre Petit de Julleville was elected bishop of Dijon on 23 June 1927. He was consecrated on 29 September 1927, in the metropolitan cathedral of Paris, by Cardinal Louis-Ernest Dubois, archbishop of Paris. He was promoted to the metropolitan see of Rouen on 7 August 1936, where he acted as Apostolic administrator of the see of Dijon from 18 September 1936 to 15 May 1937.Pope Pius XII created him cardinal priest on 18 February 1946. Pierre Petit de Julleville received the title of S. Maria in Aquiro on 22 February 1946. He died less than 2 years later, on 10 December 1947 in Rouen, and is buried in the metropolitan cathedral of Rouen. [1]

Joseph_Madec

Joseph Théophile Louis Marie Madec (March 15, 1923 – February 6, 2013) was a French Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
Joseph Théophile Louis Marie Madec was born in Ploërmel, France, and ordained a priest on April 5, 1947. Madec was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon on February 8, 1983, and consecrated on April 10, 1983. Madec was the bishop of Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon until his retirement on May 16, 2000.

Joseph-Charles_Lefèbvre

Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre (commonly Joseph Lefèbvre, 15 April 1892—2 April 1973) was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Bourges from 1943 to 1969 and was made a cardinal in 1960.
He was the cousin of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the nephew of monarchist and resistance hero René Lefebvre.

Armand-François_Le_Bourgeois

Armand-François Le Bourgeois (1911–2005) was bishop of Autun in central France from 1966 until his retirement in 1987. The last bishop of Autun to wear the pallium, he was prominent in ecumenical relations. He chaired an episcopal committee that decided to offer communion in Catholic Churches to Anglicans who found themselves out of reach of their own church in France.

André_Jean_René_Lacrampe

André Jean René Lacrampe (17 December 1941 – 15 May 2015) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Besançon.He was born on 17 December 1941 in Agos-Vidalos, a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France. He was ordained as a priest in 1967 for the Prado Institute, an Institute of Consecrated Life. On 16 October 1983 he was ordained the Titular Bishop of Legia and was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Reims. From 1 October 1988 he was Prelate of Mission de France at Pontigny, France until he became Bishop of Ajaccio on 5 January 1995. He was appointed Archbishop of Besançon on 13 August 2003 and retired from that position on 25 April 2013.He was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 2009, and Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques in 2011. He died in May 2015.

Jacques_Jullien

Jacques André Marie Jullien (7 May 1929 – 10 December 2012) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes, France.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1954, Jullien was named bishop in 1978 and resigned in 1998.

Pierre_Jacques_Joatton

Pierre Jacques Joatton (20 July 1930 − 22 November 2013) was a French Roman Catholic bishop.
Ordained to the priesthood on 29 June 1957, Joatton was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Étienne, France on 20 April 1988 and retired on 28 June 2006.