Charles-Eugène Valperga di Maglione

Charles-Eugène Valperga di Maglione (born August 11, 1740 in Valperga , † November 20, 1803 in Turin ) was a Sardinian Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop of Nice .

life and work

Bishop of Nice

Valperga was ordained a priest as a doctor of theology in December 1763 and was then director of the Real Collegio delle Province , a university institution in Turin. In January 1780 he was appointed court almosenier and shortly afterwards elected bishop of Nice . The episcopal ordination took place by Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil in Rome . In October 1780 he moved to Nice as bishop after the bishopric was orphaned for two years by the resignation of his predecessor Jacques-Thomas Astesan .

Revolution and expulsion

In the course of the French Revolution , Nice, which then had 12,000 inhabitants, became the meeting point for numerous French clerics who went into exile in Italy. Valperga accepted a dozen grateful French bishops, four hundred priests and more than 1,000 other emigrants. When the Sardinian troops withdrew from the French in September 1792, Nice was terrorized by the mob and urgently needed orderly conditions. Bishop Valperga therefore went with the secular superiors of the city to meet the approaching General Jacques Bernard d'Anselme and handed over the keys to the city. The general ordered the bishop to leave Nice because his life was in danger. Valperga obeyed against his will, set out on September 30, 1792 and narrowly escaped being hung by soldiers.

Resignation in Turin and death

Valperga went to his family in Turin. There he did not see himself as having emigrated, but as expelled and therefore still in office. In Nice, the vicar general was its executive body. He himself was ready to return at any time, but the numerous attempts made by the city of Nice to obtain permission to return failed in the turmoil of time. The result was, however, that there was no successor in Nice and that there was never an oath on the civil constitution of the clergy with the resulting schismatic conditions. On October 13, 1801, Valperga followed the Pope's request to resign from office, corresponding to the Concordat of 1801 , thus clearing the way for a successor. Two years later he died in Turin at the age of 63.

Works

• Carolus Eugenius Valperga a Maliono Valpergiensis ad honestam missionem in Regia Scientiarum Academia anno aerae vulgaris 1762 . the 15. Julii hora 8. Matutina. Turin 1762.
• Catechismo per la diocesi de Nice , pubblicato d'ordine di Monsignor CE Valperga di Maglione, Vescovo di Nice. Nice 1782.

literature

• Per l'applauditissima elezione al vescovado di Nizza dell'ill.mo sig. abate Carlo Eugenio de 'Conti di Valperga, e di. Maglione elemosiniere di SSRM governatore del Reale Collegio delle Province poesie in segno d'ossequio di gratitudine, e stima il medesimo Reale collegio delle province . Turin 1780.
• Nella partenza di monsignore Carlo Eugenio Valperga de'conti di Valperga e di Maglione per il suo vescovado di Nice . Turin 1780.
• Poetry a monsignore Carlo Eugenio de 'Conti di Valperga, e di Maglione novello vescovo di Nice . Turin 1780.
• Componimenti poetici dedicati all'illustrissimo, e reverendissimo monsignore Carlo Eugenio Valperga di Maglione, vescovo di Nice, e conte di Drappo . Nice 1780.
• Denis Ghiraldi (1915–2006): La triste destinée de mgr Valperga di Maglione évêque de Nice . (PDF; 301 kB) In: Recherches Régionales. Alpes-Maritimes et Contrées limitrophes . 166. 44, 2003, p. 53 ff. (French)

Web links

• Entry in catholic-hierarchy.org