Pierre Lambert Ledrou

{{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | honorific-prefix = Most Reverend | name = Pierre Lambert Ledrou | title = Titular Bishop of Porphyreon | image = Pierre-Lambert Ledrou 2.jpg | alt = | caption = Pierre-Lambert Ledrou (etching, 1707) | church = Catholic Church | archdiocese = | diocese = | see = | term = 1641–1721 | predecessor = Giuseppe Eusanio | successor = Agostino Nicola degl'Abbati Olivieri  | ordination = 12 April 1664 | ordained_by = | consecration = 21 December 1692 | consecrated_by = Fabrizio Spada | cardinal = | rank =  | birth_date = 1641 | birth_place = Huy, Belgium | death_date = 6 May 1721 (age 80) | death_place = | previous_post = | nationality = }}

'''Pierre Lambert Ledrou, O.E.S.A.''' (1641 – 6 May 1721) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Titular Bishop of ''Porphyreon'' (1692–1721).<ref name=HierarchiaV-Porphyreon />

==Biography== Pierre Lambert Ledrou was born in Huy, Belgium in 1641 and ordained a priest in the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine on 12 April 1664.<ref name=CathHierPieLamLed /><ref name=GCathPieLamLed /> On 25 June 1692, he was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent XII as Titular Bishop of ''Porphyreon''.<ref name=CathHierPieLamLed /><ref name=GCathPieLamLed /> On 21 December 1692, he was consecrated bishop by Fabrizio Spada, Cardinal-Priest of San Crisogono, with Michelangelo Mattei, Titular Archbishop of ''Hadrianopolis in Haemimonto'', and Giovanni Battista Visconti Aicardi, Bishop of Novara, serving as co-consecrators.<ref name=CathHierPieLamLed /><ref name=GCathPieLamLed /> He served as Titular Bishop of Porphyreon until his death on 6 May 1721.<ref name=CathHierPieLamLed /><ref name=GCathPieLamLed />

==Episcopal succession== While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of:<ref name=CathHierPieLamLed /> *Carlo Cutillo, Bishop of Minori (1694); *Giovanni Battista Capilupi, Bishop of Polignano (1694); *Giovanni Battista Gentile, Bishop of Ajaccio (1694); *Girolamo Grimaldi, Titular Archbishop of ''Edessa in Osrhoëne'' (1713); and *Jean-Ernest de Löwenstein-Wertheim, Bishop of Tournai (1714).

== References == {{reflist|colwidth=|refs= <ref name=HierarchiaV-Porphyreon>{{cite book|url=https://www.archive.org/stream/hierarchiacathol05eubeuoft#page/320/mode/2up|last1=Ritzler|first1=Remigius|last2=Sefrin|first2=Pirminus| title=Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi |volume= V|pages=320|date=1952|publisher=Messagero di S. Antonio|location=Patavii}} ''(in Latin)''</ref> <ref name=CathHierPieLamLed>{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Bishop Pierre Lambert Ledrou, O.E.S.A. |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bledrou.html |access-date=February 14, 2019}} [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref> <ref name=GCathPieLamLed>{{cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Bishop Pierre Lambert Ledrou, O.E.S.A. |website=GCatholic.org|url=https://www.gcatholic.org/hierarchy/data/bishops-LE.htm#58588 |access-date=February 14, 2019}} [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]</ref> }}

==External links and additional sources== *{{commons category-inline}} *{{cite web|last=Cheney |first=David M.|title=Porphyreon (Titular See) |website=Catholic-Hierarchy.org|url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d3p07.html |access-date=January 4, 2019}} (for Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]] *{{cite web|last=Chow |first=Gabriel|title=Titular Episcopal See of Porphyreon (Israel)|website=GCatholic.org|url=https://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/former/t1416.htm|access-date=January 4, 2019}} (for Chronology of Bishops) [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]

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