Étienne Marilley
Étienne Marilley , also Etienne Marilley (born October 29, 1804 in Châtel-Saint-Denis , † January 17, 1889 in Friborg ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop of Lausanne-Geneva .
Life
He was the son of the locksmith Joseph-Alexis Marilley and his wife Marie-Josèphe geb. Pilloud. Étienne Marilley attended the Jesuit College St. Michael in Freiburg, where he also studied theology from 1826 to 1830. He was ordained a priest on May 28, 1831, after which he was vicar in Echallens and Geneva . From 1835 to 1839 he was director of the seminary in Freiburg. From 1839 again vicar, he became pastor in Geneva in 1843 .
Although he was rejected by the Geneva cantonal government and expelled from the canton in 1844, Étienne Marilley was appointed titular bishop of Mylasa on December 16, 1845 and appointed auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Lausanne and Geneva, but this did not take effect, as he had already been on January 19 1846 was elected Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva. He was ordained bishop on March 15 of the same year by the Apostolic Nuncio in Switzerland, Archbishop Alessandro Macioti ; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Basel , Joseph Anton Salzmann , and the Bishop of Annecy , Louis Rendu .
Marilley mobilized clergy and church people for the Sonderbund and defended the rights of the church - especially in education - against the radical Freiburg government. When he allowed the oath to the new cantonal constitution only with restrictions in 1848, he was imprisoned at Chillon Castle and, with the approval of the diocesan estates, expelled to France, from where he returned in 1856. On November 17, 1879, Étienne Marilley resigned as diocesan bishop and on August 9, 1883 he was appointed titular archbishop of Myra .
Web links
- Franz Xaver Bishop : Etienne Marilley. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 22, 2008 .
- Entry on Étienne Marilley on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Literature by and about Étienne Marilley in the bibliographic database WorldCat
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Pierre Tobie Yenni |
Bishops of Lausanne and Geneva 1846–1879 |
Christophore Cosandey |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Marilley, Etienne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marilley, Etienne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Lausanne-Geneva |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Châtel-Saint-Denis |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1889 |
| Place of death | Freiburg |