Étienne-Jean-François Borderies
Étienne-Jean-François Borderies (born January 24, 1764 in Montauban , † August 4, 1832 in Versailles ) was a French Roman Catholic bishop and spiritual poet.
life and work
On March 8, 1788, Borderies received the sacrament of ordination . During the French Revolution he went into exile in London and returned to France in 1795. There he reintroduced the Catholic rite at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris . In 1802 he became vicar at the church of Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, in 1819 vicar general of the diocese of Paris and archdeacon of Saint-Denis . On April 8, 1827 Charles X appointed Bishop of Versailles and on June 25 of the same year by Pope Leo XII. confirmed, he received episcopal ordination on July 29, 1827 by the Archbishop of Paris , Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen . Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Rodez , Charles-André-Toussaint-Bruno de Ramond-Lalande , and the Bishop of Chartres , Claude-Hippolyte Clausel de Montals . He reformed the seminary of his diocese, reissued its liturgical books and wrote a catechism that appeared in 29 editions.
Borderies is particularly well-known to this day through his presumed co-authorship of the popular Christmas carol Adeste fideles , which in Germany translates as Herbei, o ihr Fauben'gen by Friedrich Heinrich Ranke ( Evangelical Hymn Book , No. 45) or Nun rejoice, you Christians by Joseph Hermann Mohr ( Gotteslob , No. 241) is sung. In any case, there is a certain Latin version of the song, which only corresponds to the text version by John Francis Wade in 1751 in the first stanza, in the liturgical books edited by Borderies. Borderies' biographer Félix Dupanloup concluded that only Borderies could be considered as authors. The evidence for this is weak, however, because Borderies had commented in detail on the liturgical works that he himself had written, but Adeste fideles never stated that he was his own work. The oldest known source of the version in question is the Office de Saint Omer 1822.
literature
- Oeuvres de M. Borderies, évêque de Versailles, précédées d'une notice sur sa vie. Potey, Paris 1834 ( digitized ).
- Félix Dupanloup : La vie de Mgr. Borderies, évêque de Versailles. Téqui, Paris 1905, OCLC 53781986 .
- Roger Trunk: Borderies, Étienne-Jean-François . In: Wolfgang Herbst (Ed.): Who is who in the hymnal? Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-50323-7 , p. 50. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- Notice on M. Borderies, évêque de Versailles. In: L'ami de la religion , Volume LXXIII, August 18, 1832, pp. 113-118 ( digitized in the Google book search).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hansjakob Becker : Up, believing souls. In: ders. Et al. (Ed.): Geistliches Wunderhorn. 2nd Edition. Ch. H. Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-48094-2 , pp. 437-444.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Louis Charrier de La Roche |
Bishop of Versailles 1827–1832 |
Louis-Marie-Edmont Blanquart de Bailleul |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borderies, Étienne-Jean-François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Roman Catholic bishop and spiritual poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montauban |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1832 |
| Place of death | Versailles |