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Pierre Lambert Ledrou

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Church
  
Catholic Church

Predecessor
  
Giuseppe Eusanio

Ordination
  
12 April 1664

In office
  
1641–1721

Died
  
6 May 1721 (age 80)

Successor
  
Agostino Nicola degl'Abbati Olivieri

Consecration
  
21 December 1692 by Fabrizio Spada

Pierre Lambert Ledrou, O.E.S.A. (1641 – 6 May 1721) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Bishop of Porphyreon (1692–1721).

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Biography

Pierre Lambert Ledrou was born in Huy, Belgium in 1641 and ordained a priest in the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine on 12 April 1664. On 25 June 1692, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Titular Bishop of Porphyreon. On 21 December 1692, he was consecrated bishop by Fabrizio Spada, Cardinal-Priest of San Crisogono, with Michelangelo Mattei, Titular Archbishop of Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto, and Giovanni Battista Visconti Aicardi, Bishop of Novara, serving as co-consecrators. He served as Titular Bishop of Porphyreon until his death on 6 May 1721.

Episcopal succession

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:

  • Carlo Cutillo, Bishop of Minori (1694);
  • Giovanni Battista Capilupi, Bishop of Polignano (1694);
  • Giovanni Battista Gentile, Bishop of Ajaccio (1694);
  • Girolamo Grimaldi, Titular Archbishop of Edessa in Osrhoëne (1713); and
  • Jean-Ernest de Löwenstein-Wertheim, Bishop of Tournai (1714).

    • References

    Pierre Lambert Ledrou Wikipedia
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