Charles Henri Joseph Binet (8 April 1869 – 15 July 1936) was a French

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and

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Biography

Charles Binet was born in Juvigny,

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

, the eldest of eight children of a farming family. Florida International University, Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church section, ''Biographical Dictionary of Pope Pius XI (1922-1939), Consistory of December 19, 1927''
/ref> He was educated at the

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of Saint-Sulpice,

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, and at the Seminary of Notre Dame des Champs. He was ordained on 22 October 1893 in

Soissons Soissons () is a commune in the northern French department of Aisne, in the region of Hauts-de-France. Located on the river Aisne, about northeast of Paris, it is one of the most ancient towns of France, and is probably the ancient capital ...

. He worked in the diocese doing pastoral work until 1895. He served as a faculty member of the Seminary of Soissons until 1914, during which time he was also appointed as Diocesan archivist in 1900. He served in the

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during

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. He was appointed

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and

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of the

diocese of Laon The diocese of Laon in the present-day département of Aisne, was a Catholic diocese for around 1300 years, up to the French Revolution. Its seat was in Laon, France, with Laon Cathedral. From early in the 13th century, the bishop of Laon was ...

on 13 February 1919.

Episcopate

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appointed him

Bishop of Soissons The Diocese of Soissons, Laon, and Saint-Quentin (Latin: ''Dioecesis Suessionensis, Laudunensis et Sanquintinensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin'') is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The dioc ...

on 16 June 1920. He was consecrated on 24 August 1920 at the cathedral of Soissons by Cardinal Louis Luçon,

Archbishop of Reims The Archdiocese of Reims or Rheims (; French language, French: ''Archidiocèse de Reims'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastic territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. Erected as a diocese around 250 by Sixtus of Reims, the diocese w ...

. He was promoted to the metropolitan see of Besançon on 31 October 1927, but continued at the previous see as apostolic administrator until 1 May 1928.

Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed

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of '' S. Prisca'' by

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in the

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of 19 December 1927. He died on 15 July 1936 and is buried in

Besançon Besançon (, ; , ; archaic ; ) is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerland. Capi ...

References

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