Félix Dupanloup

Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup (born January 3, 1802 in Saint-Félix , Upper Savoy , † October 11, 1878 at Lacombe Castle near Grenoble ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Orléans .

Life

Félix Dupanloup was ordained a priest on December 17, 1825 . From 1834 to 1845 he was the episcopal high school director in Paris (seminary of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet ), later professor of rhetoric at the Sorbonne . He was also the director of the journal L'ami de la religion (Friend of Religion).

Félix Dupanloup was elected Bishop of Orléans on April 19, 1849 and on September 28, 1849 by Pope Pius IX. approved. The Archbishop of Paris , Auguste Sibour , donated him episcopal ordination on December 9, 1849 . Co - consecrators were Louis-Marie-Edmont Blanquart de Bailleul , Archbishop of Rouen , and Jean-Nicaise Gros , Bishop of Versailles . Dupanloup remained in office until his death in 1878. He stood up for the freedom of the church ( libertas ecclesiae ) all his life .

Bishop Dupanloup temporarily headed the Petit Séminaire de la Chapelle-St-Mesmin near Orléans , where he also taught the young Paul Gauguin in Catholic liturgy and philosophy, which was to have a strong influence on his artistic development.

In 1870 he considered the Council's definition of papal infallibility to be inopportune, but immediately recognized the dogma.

In 1875 he resigned as a member of the Académie française to protest against the election of Émile Littré , author of the Dictionnaire de la langue française . In the same year he published his book against Freemasonry: Etude sur la Franc-Maçonnerie .

Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup died in 1878 at the age of 76. His marble tomb, created by Henri Chapu in 1886 , has stood in Orléans in the Sainte-Croix cathedral since 1888 .

Fonts (selection)

Atheism and the social danger , 1867 in German translation
L'Evèque d'Orléans: Etude sur la Franc-Maçonnerie. Paris 1875; in German translation: Freemasonry . Mainz 1875

Web links

Commons : Félix Dupanloup - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Félix Dupanloup in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Félix Dupanloup in the German Digital Library
Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Entry on Félix Dupanloup on catholic-hierarchy.org
Bibliotheca Masonica August Belz
Joseph Sollier: Felix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 5, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1909.
Tomb of Monseigneur Dupanloup (1886, Henri Chapu) in the Sainte-Croix Cathedral in Orléans on the website of the Bibliothèque municipale von Orléans.

Individual evidence

↑ from the biography of Paul Gauguin on the website of the Frankfurt Städelmuseum
↑ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurer Lexikon. 5th edition, Herbig Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7766-2478-6 , p. 299.

predecessor	Office	successor
Jean-Jacques Fayet	Bishop of Orléans 1849–1878	Pierre-Hector Coullié

personal data
SURNAME	Dupanloup, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dupanloup, Félix Antoine Philibert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman Catholic Bishop of Orléans
DATE OF BIRTH	January 3, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint-Félix (Haute-Savoie)
DATE OF DEATH	October 11, 1878
Place of death	Lacombe Castle near Grenoble

[1] rom the biography of Paul Gauguin on the website of the Frankfurt Städelmuseum

[Lennhoff-2] Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurer Lexikon. 5th edition, Herbig Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7766-2478-6 , p. 299.