Alexis-Henri-Marie Lépicier O.S.M. (28 February 1863,

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– 20 May 1936) was a

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of the

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who was Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious.This position gave him authority over the

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within the Catholic Church. Lépicier was born in

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. He joined the Order of Servants of Mary on 1 March 1878 in

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. He later attended the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice, Paris and the

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. He was then ordained to the priesthood on 19 September 1885 in London. He served as Master of Novices from 1890 until 1892 and was a faculty member of the Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide from 1892 until 1913. He served as Rector of the Servite College, Rome from 1895 until 1913 and was General Procurator of his order in 1901. He was appointed

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and delegate to

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and was in Scotland in 1912–1913.

Episcopate

He was appointed titular Archbishop of Tarsus on 22 May 1924. He was appointed as Apostolic Visitor to the East Indies dioceses dependent on the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith on 11 June 1924, as well as serving as Apostolic Visitor to

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and

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in 1927.

Cardinal

He was created and proclaimed

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of ''

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'' in the

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of 19 December 1927 by

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. He was then appointed as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious in 1928. He resigned the prefecture on the last day of 1935. He died in 1936.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lepicier, Alexis 1863 births 1936 deaths People from Vaucouleurs 20th-century French cardinals Members of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life