Clément-Emile Roques

Clément-Emile Roques (December 8, 1880—September 4, 1964) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Rennes from 1940 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.
==Biography==
Born in Graulhet, Clément-Emile Roques studied at the seminary in Albi and the Catholic Institute of Toulouse before being ordained to the priesthood on April 2, 1904. He then served as a professor, administrator, the prefect of studies, and superior of the seminary of Barral, in Castres, until 1929.
On April 15, 1929, Roques was appointed Bishop of Montauban by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following June 24 from Archbishop Pierre-Celestin Cézerac, with Archbishop Jules-Géraud Saliège and Bishop Charles Challiol serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral of Albi. Roques was later named Archbishop of Aix on December 24, 1934, and Archbishop of Rennes on May 11, 1940.
Pope Pius XII created him Cardinal Priest of S. Balbina in the consistory of February 18, 1946. He was papal legate to the 1947 National Eucharistic Congress in Nantes, and to the 1956 Congress in his see of Rennes. A cardinal elector in the 1958 papal conclave, Roques lived long enough to only attend the first two sessions of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1963, and participate in the conclave of 1963 that selected Pope Paul VI. During his tenure as Archbishop, the Cardinal confirmed three miracles attributed to Our Lady of LourdesThe Work of God. Approved Miracles.
Roques died in Rennes, at age 83. He is buried in the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Peter.
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*Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
*Catholic-Hierarchy
Category:1880 births
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Category:Cardinals created by Pope Pius XII
Category:French cardinals
Category:Bishops of Montauban 
Category:Archbishops of Rennes 
Category:20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops
Category:Participants in the Second Vatican Council
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