Hyacinthe-Louis de Quelen
Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen (born October 8, 1778 in Paris , † December 31, 1839 ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman and Archbishop of Paris from 1821 until his death . His term of office fell between the end of the Napoleonic Empire in 1815 and the secular July Revolution of 1830 and was shaped by the political and ecclesiastical conflicts of the era. He himself was a staunch advocate of the restoration .
Life
Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen was ordained a priest on March 14, 1807 . On October 1, 1817 he was appointed auxiliary bishop in Paris and titular bishop of Samosata by Pope Pius VII . The episcopal ordination donated him the Archbishop of Besançon , Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny (1745-1823), on October 28 of the same year. Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Reims , Jean-Charles de Coucy (1746-1824), and the Bishop of Chartres , Jean-Baptiste de Latil .
On October 7, 1819, he was appointed coadjutor of Archbishop Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord . The Pope confirmed the appointment on December 17 of the same year and made him titular Archbishop of Traianopolis . With the death of his predecessor on October 20, 1821, he became the 125th Archbishop of Paris .
Politically he supported the Bourbon kings Louis XVIII. and Karl X . He rejected the constitutional bishops from the revolutionary time and showed himself in words and habitus as a representative of the Ancien Régime .
The July monarchy of Louis Philip I stood aloof from Quélen as a legitimist and withdrew from political life after 1830.
On February 14, 1831, a commemorative mass for the Duke of Berry , a symbol of the Restoration, was held in the Paris church of St-Germain-l'Auxerrois . This resulted in a violent mass protest, in the course of which the bishop's palace on the south side of Notre-Dame Cathedral , which had already suffered damage during the July Revolution, was completely destroyed. Quélen was accepted into the convent of the Dames du Sacré-Coeur in the Rue de Varenne , where he lived until his death.
Quélen had been a member of the Académie française since 1824 . As a pastor he proved himself particularly during the Paris cholera epidemic of 1832. In the same year he approved the Miraculous Medal based on the vision of Catherine Labouré . In 1835, at the suggestion of Frédéric Ozanam , he initiated the influential Lenten sermons of Henri Lacordaire in Notre-Dame.
Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen is buried in the Saint-Marcel chapel of Notre-Dame.
Web links
- Entry on Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen (paris.catholique.fr, French)
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guillaume de Bertier de Sauvigny describes the events in detail: Mgr de Quélen et les incidents de Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois en février 1831 . In: Revue d'histoire de l'Église de France. Band 32/120, 1946. S 110-120 ( digitized. In: Persée . Retrieved on January 29, 2020 . )
- ↑ A Paris, la famille au coeur des Conférences de Carême. In: eglise.catholique.fr. Retrieved January 29, 2020 (French).
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord |
Archbishop of Paris 1821–1839 |
Denis Auguste Affre |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quelen, Hyacinthe-Louis de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1778 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1839 |
| Place of death | Paris |