Gaspard Mermillod


Gaspard Mermillod was a Swiss Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva from 1883 to 1891, having previously served as Titular Bishop of Hebron. He was created a cardinal in 1890.

Gaspard Mermillod was born on September 22, 1824, in Carouge, Switzerland. He was the eldest of six children of Jacques Mermillod and Mermillod Mermillod, both born of farming families of a neighboring village of Bardonnex. His parents operated an inn and a bakery. Gaspard attended the minor Seminary of SaintLouis du Mont at Chambry, France and studied philosophy and theology at the Jesuit Collge SaintMichel at Fribourg, Switzerland.

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