Ferdinand Terris

Ferdinand Terris (born April 27, 1824 in Bonnieux , † April 8, 1885 in Fréjus ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop .

life and career

The priest

Joseph-Sébastien-Ferdinand Terris came from a family with roots in Ireland and Florence. He attended schools in Avignon and the Saint-Sulpice seminary in Paris. In 1847 he was ordained a priest, was a chaplain, from 1858 pastor in Cavaillon and from 1867 pastor of the cathedral church of St-Siffrein in Carpentras .

Bishop of Fréjus

From 1876 to 1885 Terris was Bishop of Fréjus , where he developed considerable activity and was perceived as an opponent by the increasingly anti-church state power (prohibition of procession, abolition of local church schools, conscription for seminarians). In 1878 he was co - consecrator when Mathieu-Victor Balaïn was ordained bishop of Nice in the cathedral of Fréjus . He died in 1885 after a year of illness at the age of 60 and was buried in the Cathedral of Fréjus.

Motto and honors

De Terris' episcopal motto was: Nocte ac die (day and night). In 1877 Pope Pius IX appointed him. to the papal assistant throne and awarded him the dignity of Roman count .

Works

• Le Saint mors de Carpentras et son reliquaire . Carpentras 1874, 1897.
• Acta et decreta primae synodi dioecesanae Forojulii habitae . Forojulii 1881.

literature

• Louis Porte: Histoire du diocèse de Fréjus-Toulon . Editions du Lau 2017, pp. 137–141.

Web links

• Information on Ferdinand Terris in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France . (gives date of birth: January 20, 1824)
• Literature by and about Ferdinand Terris in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries) (gives date of birth: January 20, 1824)
• Short biography , French (gives date of birth: January 20, 1824)
• Entry in catholic-hierarchy.org (gives date of birth: April 27, 1824)