Hyacinth Petit

Hyacinth Petit OCarm (born January 24, 1680 in Virton , Belgium , † July 26, 1719 in Osnabrück ) was a Roman Catholic bishop .

Hyacinth Petit was born in Virton, which at that time belonged to the Archdiocese of Trier. In 1690 he received the tonsure in Luxembourg and shortly thereafter entered the Carmelite order . On March 8, 1704, he was ordained a priest in Cologne. Here he was also appointed Dr. theol. doctorate and then became lecturer for theology and philosophy in the Carmelite monastery in Frankfurt am Main.

After Petit had been appointed General Definitor and Qualifier at the Holy Office in Rome, he was proposed on May 11, 1717 by the Papal Missionary Congregation "de Propaganda Fide" as Auxiliary Bishop in Osnabrück and Apostolic Vicar of the North. On February 11, 1718, he was appointed titular bishop of Heliopolis in Augustamnica and auxiliary bishop in Osnabrueck and on April 9, 1718 the Apostolic Vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate of the North appointed. On 12 February 1718, he was in Rome for the Bishop ordained . The Archbishop of Cologne, who exercised ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Osnabrück, appointed Petit as his Metropolitan Vicar in Osnabrück.

Because the Osnabrück cathedral chapter had been excommunicated because of the election of a Protestant as bishop of Osnabrück, Petit was given the task of exempting the cathedral canons from the church penalty of excommunication.

The Protestant ruler of the Prince Diocese of Osnabrück, Ernst August II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, refused Petit the income and apartment he was entitled to in Osnabrück, which is why Petit lived in the college of the Jesuits in Osnabrück, who also ran the Carolinum grammar school (Osnabrück) .

Petit died surprisingly on July 26, 1719 in Osnabrück.

literature

• Michael F. Feldkamp : The appointment of the Osnabrück auxiliary bishops and general vicars in the time of the "successio alternativa" according to Roman sources , in: Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history 81 (1986), pp. 229–247.
• Michael F. Feldkamp : On the award of quinquennal faculties via the Diocese of Osnabrück to the Archbishops of Cologne in the 17th and 18th centuries , in: Annals of the Historisches Verein für den Niederrhein 190 (1987), pp. 123-145.
• Michael F. Feldkamp : Petit, Hyacinth , in: The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1648 to 1803. A biographical lexicon. Edited by Erwin Gatz with the assistance of Stephan M. Janker, Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-06763-0 , p. 340.

Web links

• Entry for Hyacinth Petit on catholic-hierarchy.org