François-Virgile Dubillard

Cardinal François-Virgile Dubillard

François-Virgile Cardinal Dubillard (born February 16, 1845 in Soye , France , † December 1, 1914 in Chambéry ) was Archbishop of Chambéry .

Life

François-Virgile Dubillard received his theological and philosophical training in Vesoul , Besançon and Rome . He received his doctorate in Rome for the doctor of theology and received on 5 September 1869, the sacrament of Holy Orders . From 1869 to 1872 he worked in the parish pastoral care before he became professor of dogmatics and the history of dogma at the seminary of Besançon in 1872 . From 1881 to 1890 he was also the Regens chairman of this seminar . From 1890 to 1899, François-Virgile Dubillard headed the administration of the diocese of Besançon as vicar general .

On December 14, 1899, Pope Leo XIII appointed him . to the Bishop of Quimper . He was ordained episcopate on February 24, 1900 in the Cathedral of Besançon Fulbert Petit , the Archbishop of Besançon, co-consecrators were Pierre-Marie Ardin , Archbishop of Sens , and Charles Theuret , Bishop of Monaco . Pope Pius X placed him in charge of the Archdiocese of Chambéry in 1907 and accepted him into the College of Cardinals on November 27, 1911 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Susanna .

François-Virgile Dubillard could not because of illness on the conclave of 1914 to participate. He died on December 1, 1914 in Chambéry and was buried in the cathedral there.

Web links

• Dubillard, François-Virgile. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed May 1, 2017.
• Entry on François-Virgile Dubillard on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on May 1, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
Gustave-Adolphe de Pélacot	Archbishop of Chambéry 1907–1914	Dominique Castellan
Henri-Victor Valleau	Bishop of Quimper 1900–1908	Adolphe-Yves-Marie Duparc