Denis Auguste Affre

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Archbishop Denis Auguste Affre

Denis Auguste Affre (born September 27, 1793 in Saint-Rome-de-Tarn , Aveyron department , † June 27, 1848 in Paris ) was Archbishop of Paris .

Life

Affre was ordained a priest on May 16, 1818 and in the same year became professor of theology at the seminary of Saint-Sulpice de Paris . In 1821 he became vicar general in Luçon and in 1823 in Amiens . He made great contributions to the establishment of elementary schools, the formation of the clergy and the financial administration of the diocese. Living as Canon and Titular Vicar in Paris since 1834 , he was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Strasbourg on December 11, 1839 and confirmed by the Pope on April 27, 1840. At the same time he was appointed titular bishop of Pompeiopolis in Cilicia . On June 4th of the same year he was appointed Archbishop of Paris and confirmed on July 13th. He received his episcopal ordination on August 6, 1840, by the Bishop of Arras , Hugues-Robert-Jean-Charles de la Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraquais ; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Versailles , Louis-Marie-Edmont Blanquart de Bailleul , and the Bishop of Meaux , Auguste Allou .

A staunch Gallican by then, he turned against the king on the question of freedom of instruction and joined the February Revolution in 1848 . A determined supporter of the Second Republic , he met his death on June 27, 1848, when he climbed the barricades in the June uprising to bring about peace .

Works (selection)

  • Christianity and science or philosophical introduction to the study of Christianity ("Introduction philosophique à l'étude du christianisme"). Habicht Verlag, Bonn 1846.

literature

  • Émile Blanchet: Monseigneur Affre et son temps. Bonne Press, Paris 1948.
  • Jean Collot: L'archevêque des barricades. Monseigneur Affre (1793-1848). Le Chevron d'or, Bordeaux 1948.
  • Affre, Denis Auguste . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 1, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 142.
  • Patrice F. Cruice: Vie de Denis-Auguste Affre, Archevêque de Paris. 1793-1848. Vrin, Paris 1849.
  • Last hours of Rev. Denis Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris, wounded at the barricade of St. Antoine, died on June 27, 1848. According to the report of his two Capitular Vicars General; together with a description of the workers' uprising in Paris from June 23 to 26, 1848. Köhler-Verlag, Stuttgart 1848.
  • Affre, Denis Auguste . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 1 : A-Androphagi . London 1910, p. 301 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

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predecessor Office successor
Hyacinthe-Louis de Quelen Archbishop of Paris
1840–1848 		Auguste Sibour
personal data
SURNAME Affre, Denis Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Paris
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Rome-de-Tarn , Aveyron department
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1848
Place of death Paris