Jacques-Marie-Antoine-Célestin Dupont
Jacques-Marie-Antoine-Célestin Dupont , also Jacques-Marie-Antoine-Célestin du Pont (born February 1, 1792 in Iglesias , Kingdom of Sardinia , † May 26, 1859 in Bourges ) was a French cardinal from Sardinia .
Life
He was the only child of Benoît Dupont and his wife Thérèse Siga. He first attended a school in Italy and then studied at the seminars of Nice and Lyon and at the University of Turin, where he received his doctorate iuris utriusque . He was ordained a subdeacon on January 6, 1813 in Lyon, he was ordained a deacon on July 2 of the same year and ordained a priest on September 24, 1815 . Afterwards he was personal secretary to the Bishop of Nice . In the Archdiocese of Sens he was on November 2, 1821 canon of the Metropolitan Chapter. From June 4, 1822 to December 10, 1829 Dupont was archdeacon and vicar general in the Archdiocese of Sens. As a conclavist , he accompanied Cardinal Anne-Louis-Henri de La Fare to the conclave in 1823 , from which Leo XII. emerged as Pope.
Pope Leo XII. appointed him on May 3, 1824 titular bishop of Samosata and auxiliary bishop in Sens. He was ordained episcopate on June 29 of the same year by the Archbishop of Sens, Cardinal Anne-Louis-Henri de La Fare; Co- consecrators were Mathias de la Romagère , Bishop of Saint-Brieuc , and Jean-Baptiste Millaux , Bishop of Nevers . On June 23, 1824, Dupont had taken French citizenship. He became bishop of Saint-Dié on July 5, 1830 . On July 24, 1835, he was made Archbishop of Avignon and on January 24, 1842, he was made Archbishop of Bourges .
Pope Pius IX created him in the consistory of June 11, 1847 as a cardinal priest , the cardinal's hat and the titular church Santa Maria del Popolo received Dupont on October 4, 1847.
Jacques-Marie-Antoine-Célestin Dupont was buried in 1859 in the cathedral of Bourges .
literature
- Martin Bräuer: Handbook of the Cardinals: 1846–2012. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-110-26947-5 , p. 37 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Dupont, Jacques-Marie-Antoine-Célestin. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed May 23, 2019.
- Entry on Jacques-Marie-Antoine-Célestin du Pont on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on May 23, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to Salvador Miranda and Martin Bräuer, February 2nd is also given as the date of birth.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Guillaume-Aubin de Villèle |
Archbishop of Bourges 1842-1859 |
Alexis-Basile-Alexandre Menjaud |
| Louis-Joseph d'Humières |
Archbishop of Avignon 1834–1842 |
Paul Naudo |
| Jacques-Alexis Jacquemin |
Bishop of Saint-Dié 1830–1835 |
Jean-Joseph-Marie-Eugène de Jerphanion |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dupont, Jacques-Marie-Antoine-Célestin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Du Pont, Jacques-Marie-Antoine-Celestin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cardinal, Archbishop of Bourges |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1792 or February 2, 1792 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Iglesias (Sardinia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1859 |
| Place of death | Bourges |