Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet [SEP] position held
Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet
Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet (November 16, 1795 in Bourg-Argental, Loire – December 30, 1882) was a French cardinal and Archbishop of Bordeaux (carrying with his colleague of Bourges the title of Primate of Aquitaine).
Life.
His ecclesiastical province corresponded broadly with the Roman Aquitania Secunda (including Poitiers)but also included the French Antilles.Donnet argued forcefully for the canonisation of Christopher Columbus. Earlier he had been titular bishop of Rhosus appointed to the diocese of Nancy
10. Nicholas Wiseman
11. Giuseppe Pecci
12. Melchior von Diepenbrock
13. Roberto Giovanni F. Roberti
15 March 1852.
1. Domenico Lucciardi
2. Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet
3. Gerolamo Marquese d'Andrea
4. Carlo Luigi Morichini
5. Michele Viale-Prelà
6. Giovanni Brunelli
7 March 1853.
1. János Scitovszky
2. François-Nicholas-Madeleine Morlot
3. Giusto Recanati
4. Domenico Savelli
5. Prospero Caterini