Guillaume-Marie-Joseph Labouré

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Guillaume Labouré
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Reference style His Eminence
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See Rennes

Guillaume-Marie-Joseph Labouré (October 27, 1841—April 21, 1906) was a French archbishop and Cardinal.

Born in Achiet-le-Petit, he studied at Saint-Sulpice Seminary in Paris and was ordained to the Priesthood on September 23, 1865. In the diocese of Arras, he served as a professor and superior of its minor seminary and also vicar general.

On March 27, 1885, he was appointed bishop of Le Mans by Pope Leo XIII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 31 from Archbishop Guillaume Meignan, with Bishops Clovis Catteau and Désire Donnel serving as co-consecrators. He was later promoted to the metropolitan see of Rennes on June 15, 1893, and named an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on June 26, 1896.

Leo XIII created him Cardinal Priest of S. Maria Nuova e S. Francesca in Foro Romano in the consistory of April 19, 1897. He participated in the papal conclave of 1903, which elected Pope Pius X.

He died in Rennes, and was buried in the metropolitan cathedral of Rennes.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of Le Mans
1884–1893
Succeeded by
Charles-Joseph-Louis-Abel Gilbert
Preceded by Archbishop of Rennes
1893–1906
Succeeded by
Auguste-René-Marie Dubourg