Guillaume de Donjeon | |
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| Archbishop of Bourges | |
 Saint William of Bourges. Engraving by Fritz Dinger after Andreas Johann Jacob Müller | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Bourges |
| See | Bourges |
| Appointed | 23 November 1200 |
| Installed | 1201 |
| Term ended | 10 January 1209 |
| Predecessor | Henri de Sully |
| Successor | Girad de Cros |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | c. 1201 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Guillaume de Donjeon c. 1140[1] |
| Died | 10 January 1209 (aged 59) Bourges, Kingdom of France |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 10 January |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Canonized | 17 May 1218 by Pope Honorius III |
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| Patronage | |
Guillaume de Donjeon (c. 1140 – 10 January 1209) was a French Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Bourges from 1200 until his death. He served as a canon in Soissons and Paris before he entered the Order of Grandmont. Sometime later he entered the Cistercians. He was known to practice austerities such as abstaining from meat and wearing a hair shirt.
He was also known for his deep devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and for his conversion of sinners. He oversaw the construction of the new archdiocesan cathedral that his predecessor had authorized and in which he himself would be buried. It had been claimed that he performed eighteen miracles in life and a further eighteen in death.
His canonization was celebrated under Pope Honorius III in 1218 and he was named as the patron saint for the Parisian college.