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unusual facts about Archbishop of Bordeaux



Sancho VI William of Gascony

In 1027, he met William V at Blaye and they jointly selected Geoffrey, a Frank, as Archbishop of Bordeaux, which had become the Gascon capital during Sancho's reign.


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1603 in Ireland

November - Geoffrey Keating is one of forty students who sail for Bordeaux under the charge of the Rev. Diarmaid MacCarthy to begin their studies at the Irish College which has just been founded in that city by Cardinal François de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux.

Jeanne-Germaine Castang

Castang was beatified on September 16 2007 at the Cathedral of Bordeaux, in the presence of Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, special envoy of the Pope, Archbishop of Bordeaux and President of the Conference of Bishops of France.