Rémy-Louis Leprêtre OFM (28 August 1878 – 10 January 1961) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an archbishop and Apostolic Delegate to Syria from 1936 to 1947.

Biography

Rémy-Louis Leprêtre was born on 28 August 1878 in

Le Portel Le Portel (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department in the Hauts-de-France region of France about southwest of Boulogne town centre. History Le Portel translates as "the little port." The origi ...

, France. He was ordained a priest of the

Order of Friars Minor The Order of Friars Minor (commonly called the Franciscans, the Franciscan Order, or the Seraphic Order; Post-nominal letters, postnominal abbreviation OFM) is a Mendicant orders, mendicant Catholic religious order, founded in 1209 by Francis ...

on 25 June 1903. On 18 March 1936,

Pope Pius XI Pope Pius XI (; born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, ; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939) was head of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 until his death in February 1939. He was also the first sovereign of the Vatican City State u ...

appointed him titular archbishop of Rhusium and Apostolic Delegate to Syria. He received his episcopal consecration on 12 May 1936 from Cardinal

Luigi Maglione Luigi Maglione (; 2March 187722August 1944) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who joined the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1908 and served as a papal nuncio from 1920 to 1935. After a few years working in the Roman Curia, h ...

, Apostolic Nuncio to France. He resigned on 7 May 1947 at the age of 68. He died on 10 January 1961 at the age of 82.

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Catholic Hierarchy: Archbishop Rémy-Louis Leprêtre, O.F.M.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Leprêtre, Rémy-Louis 1878 births 1961 deaths People from Pas-de-Calais Apostolic nuncios to Syria Franciscan bishops 20th-century Roman Catholic titular archbishops Franciscan missionaries