Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lécot

Victor- Lucien- Sulpice Cardinal Lécot ( born January 8, 1831 in Monte -Lizerolles, France, † December 19, 1908 in Chambéry ) was Archbishop of Bordeaux.

Life

Victor Lécot, a farmer's son, attended the small seminar in Noyon, and taught according to the Baccalaureate (1849 ) Natural sciences ibid. In 1852 he entered the great Seminary of Beauvais and moved in February 1855 to Saint -Sulpice, Paris.

Ordained priest on 24 June 1855, he was professor of philosophy at the Seminary of Noyon, in 1869 vicar at the Cathedral of Beauvais and 1872 pastor in St. Antoine de Compiègne.

Determined by the Government in March 1886, for the Bishop of Dijon, he was präkonisiert on June 22, 1886, received on 11 July 1886 Bishop Joseph Maxence Peronne episcopal ordination. On August 11, he was enthroned solemnly. Important highlights of his tenure were remodeling the Semaine religieuse 1886, the creation of a work of Appeal in 1887, the reorganization of church conferences, the publication of a new Catechism 1887-88, new Kapitularstatuten 1887 and guidelines for the establishment of free schools, 1888. He also left the Cathedral restore and led pilgrimages to the Holy. Benignus, the buried in the crypt diocesan saints a.

On June 4, 1890, he was appointed Archbishop of Bordeaux. Special merit he earned by his social commitment, eg through the creation of workers' kitchens, and its commitment to the working class. At the same time he was regarded as very loyal pope. On June 12, 1893 it took Pope Leo XIII. as cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Pudenziana in the College of Cardinals.

Victor- Lucien- Sulpice Lécot died on 19 December 1908 in Chambéry on the return journey of a pilgrimage to Rome.