André-Maurice Bovet

Consecration of Bishop André-Maurice Bovet, Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva

André-Maurice Bovet (born November 29, 1865 in Autigny , Canton of Friborg ; † August 3, 1915 in Friborg ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop of Lausanne and Geneva .

Life

André-Maurice Bovet was the son of the farmer Joseph Bovet and his wife Françoise geb. Dafflon. He attended St. Michael's College in Freiburg from 1879 to 1887 and then studied theology in Innsbruck . From 1888 he attended the seminary in Freiburg im Üechtland, continued his studies at the University of Freiburg from 1890 to 1893 and was awarded a Dr. theol doctorate . He was ordained a priest on August 25, 1891 and from 1894 worked as a vicar in Neuchâtel . In the same year he became a teacher at the St. Michael College in Freiburg and in 1895 its director. André-Maurice Bovet taught canon law and dogmatics there , and from 1907 also homiletics .

On November 30, 1911, André-Maurice Bovet was elected Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva. The episcopal ordination donated him on February 13, 1912, the former Bishop of Iași , Archbishop Dominique Jacquet OFMConv ; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Basel and Lugano , Jakob Stammler , and Joseph-Emile Abbet CRA , Abbot Bishop of Saint-Maurice.

Act

André-Maurice Bovet founded the small seminary Saint-Charles in Romont FR in 1915 and improved the material foundations of the clergy. In 1913 he was involved in the founding of the Union romande des travailleurs catholiques trade union , and during the First World War he set up the Mission catholique suisse to support French prisoners of war in Germany.

literature

• Marianne Rolle: André-Maurice Bovet. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . May 4, 2004 .

Web links

• Entry on André-Maurice Bovet on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Joseph Déruaz	Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva 1911–1915	Placide Colliard