Auguste Gaudel

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Auguste Gaudel (born May 21, 1880 in Gerbéviller , † August 8, 1969 in Toulon ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop.

life and career

The priest

Gaudel attended the minor seminary in Pont-à-Mousson and the seminary in Nancy . His teachers were Charles Ruch and Eugène Mangenot (1856-1922). His fellow students included Emile Amann (1880–1948) and Eugène Tisserant . After his ordination in 1903 he studied until 1906 at the Institut Catholique de Paris with Alfred Baudrillart and Jules Lebreton (1873-1956). The subsequent study of dogma history at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Munich , he had to break off for health reasons and was from 1908 to 1913 chaplain in Nancy, then until 1920 pastor in Magnières near his home town. After the outbreak of war in 1914, he offered himself to exchange 19 hostages and was sentenced to death, but got away with his life. From 1915 until the end of the war he did military service, most recently as a medic.

The theology professor and bishop

In 1920 he was appointed to the theological faculty of the University of Strasbourg and taught there from 1927 as a professor of dogmatics. In 1939 he went to Clermont-Ferrand with all the university staff . There he accepted the appointment as Bishop of Fréjus in 1941 , after he had refused the appointment to the episcopal see Metz in 1938. On December 16, 1941, he ceremoniously moved into the town of Fréjus .

Bishop Gaudel managed to move the bishopric to the city of Toulon . In 1957 he achieved the renaming of the diocese of Fréjus in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon at the Vatican . After solemnly entering Toulon in January 1958, he turned official business over to a coadjutor, Bishop Henri Mazerat (who officially succeeded him in 1960), and retired as titular bishop of Nisyrus . He died in 1969 at the age of 89 and was buried in the Cathedral of Toulon.

Motto and honors

Gaudel's episcopal motto was: Pacem et veritatem diligite (Love peace and truth). He was a Knight of the Legion of Honor and an officer in the Order of the Palmes Académiques .

Works

literature

  • Louis Porte: Histoire du diocèse de Fréjus-Toulon . Editions du Lau 2017, pp. 182–195.

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personal data
SURNAME Gaudel, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaudel, Joseph Auguste (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerbéviller
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1969
Place of death Toulon