Pierre-Paulin Andrieu was a French

France

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  Cardinal

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 of the Roman Catholic Church

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 and archbishop of Bordeaux et Bazes.

He was educated at the Seminary of Toulouse in Toulouse

Toulouse

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, France

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. He was ordained to the priesthood on 30 May 1874. He worked as a priest doing pastoral

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 work from 1874 for a year. He was chosen by Florian-Jules-Félix Desprez, the Archbishop of Toulouse, to be his secretary

Secretary

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 until 1880.

Episcopate

Pope Leo XIII

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 appointed him Bishop of Marseille on 18 April 1901, being consecrated that July.

Cardinalate

Bishop Andrieu was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of S. Onofrio in the consistory

Consistory

-Antiquity:Originally, the Latin word consistorium meant simply 'sitting together', just as the Greek synedrion ....

 of 16 December 1907 by Pope Pius X

Pope Pius X

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. He was appointed to the metropolitan see of Bordeaux

Archbishopric of Bordeaux

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 on 2 January 1909. He took part in the conclave

Papal conclave

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s of 1914

Papal conclave, 1914

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 and 1922

Papal conclave, 1922

After a reign of just eight years, Pope Benedict XV died on 22 January 1922 of pneumonia. At his death there were 61 members of the College of Cardinals. However, later that same day, Enrique Almaraz y Santos, the Archbishop of Toledo, died, leaving a college of 60 cardinals to elect Pope...

, that elected Pope Benedict XV

Pope Benedict XV

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 and Pope Pius XI

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, respectively. As Archbishop he issued the first condemnation of the French hierarchy against L'Action Française in 1926.

He died on 15 February 1935 in Bordeaux

Bordeaux

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, aged 85.