Clément Roques

Clément-Émile Roques (8 December 1880—4 September 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.

[1] Born in Graulhet, Clément-Émile Roques studied at the seminary in Albi and the Catholic Institute of Toulouse before being ordained to the priesthood on 2 April 1904.

He then served as a professor, administrator, the prefect of studies, and superior of the seminary of Barral, in Castres, until 1929.

Pope Pius XII created him Cardinal Priest of S. Balbina in the consistory of 18 February 1946.