He received his episcopal consecration on the following October 12 from Cardinal Maurice Feltin, with Archbishop Emile Guerry of Cambrai and Bishop Pierre de la Chanonie of Clermont as co-consecrators.
After voting in the 1963 papal conclave, Feltin served as President of the French Episcopal Conference from 1964 to 1969, and resigned as Paris' archbishop on 21 December 1966.
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He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1958 papal conclave, and he attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965.
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Liénart received his episcopal consecration on the following December 8 from Bishop Charles-Albert-Joseph Lecomte of Amiens, with Bishops Palmyre Jasoone and Maurice Feltin serving as co-consecrators, in Tourcoing.