Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lécot
{{Short description|French archbishop and cardinal}}
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| type = Cardinal
| image = Cardinal Victor Lécot (1831-1908).png
| honorific_prefix = His Eminence
| name = Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lécot
| title = Cardinal, Archbishop of Bordeaux
| church = Catholic Church
| archdiocese = Bordeaux
| see = Bordeaux
| appointed = 26 June 1890
| term_start = 1 September 1890
| term_end = 19 December 1908
| predecessor = Aimé-Victor-François Guilbert
| successor = Pierre-Paulin Andrieu
| other_post = Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana (1894-1908)
| ordination = 24 June 1855
| consecration = 11 July 1886
| consecrated_by = Joseph-Maxence Péronne
| cardinal = 12 June 1893
| created_cardinal_by = Leo XIII
| rank = Cardinal-Priest
| birth_name = Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lécot
| birth_date = 8 January 1831
| birth_place = Montescourt-Lizerolles, French Kingdom
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1908|12|19|1831|01|08}}
| death_place = Chambéry, French Third Republic
| buried = Bordeaux Cathedral
| parents = Pierre Henri Lécot
Celestine Alexandrine Pourrier
| previous_post = Bishop of Dijon (1886-90)
| motto = Nos autem Christi
| coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Mgr Victor Lecot.svg }}
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Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lécot (8 January 1831—19 December 1908) was a French archbishop and cardinal of the Catholic Church.
Biography
He was born in Montescourt-Lizerolles, and studied at the Minor Seminary of Compiègne and Major Seminary of Beauvais. He was ordained to the priesthood on 24 June 1855, and then taught at the Minor Seminary of Dijon until 1858. He also served as vicar of the Cathedral of Beauvais (1858-1872), military chaplain in the French Army during the Franco-Prussian War and pastor of the church of Saint-Antoine in Compiègne (1872-1886).{{cn|date=February 2024}}
On the 10 June 1886, he was appointed Bishop of Dijon by Pope Leo XIII. He received his consecration on the following 11 July from Bishop Joseph-Maxence Péronne, with Bishops Paul-François-Marie de Forges and François-Marie Duboin, C.S.Sp., serving as co-consecrators. He was later transferred to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bordeaux on 26 June 1890.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
Pope Leo XIII created him Cardinal Priest of the Basilica of Santa Pudenziana in the consistory of 12 June 1893.{{cn|date=February 2024}} He participated in the Papal Conclave of 1903, which elected Pope Pius X.{{cite book |last1=Burkle-Young |first1=Francis A. |title=Papal Elections in the Age of Transition, 1878-1922 |date=2000 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-0-7391-0114-8 |page=77 |language=en}}
He died in Chambéry, aged 77. He is buried in the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Andrew in Bordeaux.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
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Category:19th-century French cardinals
Category:20th-century French cardinals
Category:Cardinals created by Pope Leo XIII
Category:Archbishops of Bordeaux