Eugène Lachat

Bishop Eugène Lachat; contemporary engraving.

Aimable Jean Claude Eugène Lachat (born October 14, 1819 on the Montavon farm in the village of Réclère in the canton of Jura ; † November 1, 1886 in Balerna , canton of Ticino ) was a Roman Catholic bishop of Basel, apostolic administrator of the canton of Ticino and titular archbishop of Tamiathis .

Life

Eugène Lachat entered the Order of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood at the age of 17 and was ordained a priest on September 24, 1842 .

After he was elected Bishop of Basel on February 26, 1863, Pope Pius IX confirmed . the election on October 26th of the same year. He was ordained bishop on November 30, 1863 by the then Bishop of Strasbourg, Andreas Räss , in the Solothurn Cathedral .

In the course of the Kulturkampf on January 29, 1873, Lachat was deposed from his office by the diocesan estates of Aargau , Solothurn , Bern , Basel-Landschaft and Thurgau , while Lucerne and Zug continued to regard him as the legitimate bishop.

literature

• Franz Xaver Bishop :  LACHAT, Aimable Jean Claude Eugène. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 927-930.
• Victor Conzemius: Eugène Lachat. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 21, 2007 , accessed January 12, 2020 .
• Alberto Lepori, Fabrizio Panzera (ed.): Uomini nostri. Trenta biography di uomini politici. Armando Dadò Editore , Locarno 1989, p. 21.

Web links

• Entry for Archbishop Eugène Amable Jean Claude Lachat on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Un Évêque Jurassien MGR Lachat . Retrieved February 4, 2016 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl Arnold-Obrist	Bishop of Basel 1863–1873	Friedrich Fiala

predecessor	Office	successor
	Bishop of Lugano 1884–1886	Vincenzo Molo