Charles Binet

Charles -Henri -Joseph Cardinal Binet ( born April 8, 1869 in Juvigny, France, † July 15, 1936 in Besançon) was Archbishop of Besançon.

Life

Charles Binet received his philosophical and theological education in Paris. He received on October 22, 1893 Sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked as a chaplain in the Diocese of Soissons. From 1895 to 1914 he lectured Catholic theology at the seminary of his native diocese, which he headed as rain in the years 1909 until 1914. During World War II he worked as a chaplain in the French army. In 1919 he became vicar-general and archdeacon of the diocese of Laon.

Charles Binet was on 16 June 1920 by Pope Benedict XV. appointed bishop of Soissons. The bishop ordained Charles Binet on August 24, 1920 by the Archbishop of Reims, Louis Cardinal Luçon. In October of 1927, he was named by Pope Pius XI. Archbishop of Besançon, in December of the same year he took him as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Prisca on the College of Cardinals.

Charles Binet died on 15 July 1936 in Besançon, and was buried in the local cathedral St- Jean.