Charles Henri Joseph Binet (8 April 1869 – 15 July 1936) was a French Archbishop of Besançon and Cardinal

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Charles Binet was born in Juvigny

Juvigny

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, France

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, and was educated at the Seminary

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 of Saint-Sulpice, Paris

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

Soissons

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. 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 French Army

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 during World War I

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. He was appointed vicar general

Vicar general

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 and archdeacon

Archdeacon

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 of the diocese of Laon on 13 February 1919.

Episcopate

Pope Benedict XV

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 appointed him Bishop of Soissons on June 16, 1920. He was consecrated, August 24, 1920, cathedral of Soissons, by Cardinal Louis Luçon

Louis Luçon

Louis-Henri-Joseph Luçon J.C.D. S.T.D. was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and was former Archbishop of Reims....

, Archbishop of Reims

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. He remained at his see until he was promoted to the metropolitan see of Besançon on October 31, 1927.

Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of S. Prisca by Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI

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 in the consistory

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