Frédéric de Falloux du Coudray

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Frédéric de Falloux du Coudray (born August 15, 1815 in Le Bourg-d'Iré , Maine-et-Loire , † June 22, 1884 in Tivoli , Latium ) was a French cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

He was a son of Count Guillaume de Falloux du Coudray and his wife Louise Félicité de Fitte de Soucy, daughter of a governess of the children of Charles X of France , who had raised the father de Falloux du Coudray to the nobility. Together with his brother Alfred (1811-1886), who was Minister of Education of France during the Second Empire and a well-known representative of liberal Catholicism , he studied in Paris under Abbé Dupanloup , who later became Bishop of Orléans . He later moved to Rome on the recommendation of the Abbé Dupanloup, where he was accepted at the Academy for the Ecclesiastical Nobility . The ordination received Frederic de Falloux du Coudray in 1837 by Cardinal Carlo Odescalchi . Pope Gregory XVI appointed him secret chamberlain to His Holiness and appointed him pastor of the French community in Rome. In May 1838 he became papal house prelate and entered the service of the curia on July 12 of the same year as a trainee lawyer . After various positions in the Curia, he became Secretary of the Congregations for the Apostolic Visitation and for the Discipline of Regulars, which he remained until he was promoted to Cardinal. On November 18, 1849 he was also a canon of the Vatican Basilica . From 1851 he was assigned to the Council Congregation . On September 30, 1861 he was appointed Regens of the Apostolic Chancellery .

In the consistory of March 12, 1877 Pope Pius IX. Frédéric de Falloux du Coudray joined the College of Cardinals and awarded him the red hat on March 15 and Sant'Agata in Suburra as the title diaconia on March 20 . Cardinal de Falloux du Coudray took part in the conclave of 1878 , from which Leo XIII. emerged as Pope. On May 12, 1879, he opted for the title deaconry Sant'Angelo in Pescheria .

Frédéric de Falloux du Coudray died of a stroke in Tivoli, where he used to spend the summer, and was buried in the local cemetery. He left his extensive collection of paintings to Pope Leo XIII.

literature

  • Martin Bräuer: Handbook of the Cardinals 1846–2012. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-026944-4 , p. 109.
  • Philippe Bountry: Prélats Référendaires et officers de curie en fonctions sous la restauration (1814–1846) . In: Souverain et pontife. Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine à l'âge de la Restoration (1814–1846) . École française de Rome, Rome 2002, margin no. 237–238 (French, online edition [accessed March 12, 2019]).

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personal data
SURNAME Falloux du Coudray, Frédéric de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Bourg-d'Iré , Maine-et-Loire
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1884
Place of death Tivoli , Lazio