Augustine Simeone

Augustin Simeone (born September 27, 1863 in Marseille , † October 22, 1940 in Fréjus ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop .

life and career

The priest

Augustin Simeone (also: Auguste Siméone ) grew up in Marseille in the parish of Saint-Laurent . He attended the school of the Brothers of Christian Doctrine , attended the seminary in Marseille, then the French Pontifical Seminary in Rome and was ordained a priest in 1888. As a chaplain in the parish of Saint-Joseph in Marseille, he became general secretary of the episcopal ordinariate under Bishop Pierre-Paulin Andrieu , then pastor of his home parish of Saint-Laurent.

Bishop of Ajaccio and Fréjus-Toulon

In 1916 he was appointed Bishop of Ajaccio in Corsica as head of the small seminary in Marseille . In 1926 he moved to the bishopric of the diocese of Fréjus . There he brought the congregation of the Sœurs missionnaires catéchistes du Sacré-Cœur, founded in Menton in 1922, first to Toulon (1933), then also to Fréjus (and Marseille). He showed his devotion to the Virgin Mary in 1931 at celebrations for Notre-Dame de la Garde in Marseille and Notre-Dame-de-Pitié in Roquebrune-sur-Argens , and in 1938 for Notre-Dame-de-Grâces in Cotignac . He died in 1940 at the age of 77 and was buried in the Cathedral of Fréjus .

Motto and honors

Simeone's episcopal motto was: In caritate Christi cum Maria matre ejus (In love for Christ with his mother). He was a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

literature

• Louis Porte: Histoire du diocèse de Fréjus-Toulon . Editions du Lau 2017, pp. 172–181.
• François J. Casta: Le diocèse d'Ajaccio . Editions Beauchesne, Paris 1974, pp. 233-235.

Web links

• Information on Augustin Simeone in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• Literature by and about Augustin Simeone in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Short biography , French
• Entry in catholic-hierarchy.org