Achille Liénart

Cardinal Achille Liénart ( born February 7, 1884 in Lille, France, † February 15, 1973 ibid ) was Bishop of Lille.

Life

Achille Liénart studied in Lille, Paris and Rome, the subjects of philosophy and Catholic theology. He received on 29 June 1907, the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked as a lecturer at the Seminary of Cambrai. From 1910 to 1914 he taught at the seminary of Lille. Achille Liénart participated as a military chaplain of the French Army in the First World War and then worked as a pastor in various parishes of the Diocese of Lille.

Pope Pius XI. appointed him on October 6, 1928 Bishop of Lille, two years later he took him a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Sisto to the College of Cardinals. Cardinal Achille Liénart represented the Pope at numerous celebrations as papal legate and led for many years the French Episcopal Conference. He participated in the years 1962 to 1965 at the Second Vatican Council. The management of the diocese of Lille he laid in 1968 for reasons of age. Cardinal Achille Liénart died on February 15, 1973 in Lille, and was buried in the Notre- Dame de la Treille Cathedral, the completion of which he had advanced substantially.

Cardinal Liénart has participated in the conclaves of 1939, 1958, and 1963 as well as a Council Father at all sessions of Vatican II