Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus

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Portrait of the Bishop, 1823

Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Lefebvre de Cheverus (born January 28, 1768 in Mayenne , France , † July 19, 1836 in Bordeaux ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman, cardinal and archbishop of Bordeaux .

Life

Cardinal de Cheverus' tomb in Bordeaux Cathedral

Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus received the sacrament of ordination for the diocese of Montauban on December 18, 1790 . While fleeing from the church persecution by the French Revolution , he came to Massachusetts in 1796 , where he worked together with Francis Anthony Matignon in pastoral care and built the new Catholic Church of the Holy Cross in Boston. It was not until 1780 that the Massachusetts Constitution granted Catholics the freedom to practice their religion. Due to his social attitude and his diplomatic skills, he was recognized by all sections of the population in a time of denominational tensions between Protestants and Catholics. His work during the yellow fever epidemic of 1798 also contributed to this.

Pope Pius VII appointed him on April 8, 1808, the first bishop of the diocese of Boston established on the same date . It was not until two and a half years later, on November 1, 1810, that the Archbishop of Baltimore , John Carroll , donated him episcopal ordination . Co- consecrators were the Coadjutor Bishop of Baltimore, Leonard Neale SJ , and the Bishop of Philadelphia , Michael Francis Egan, OFM .

As a founding bishop, he toured the new diocese, which then comprised all of New England . In the south of Boston he had the Catholic St. Augustine cemetery laid out, where he inaugurated a second Catholic church with the seminary chapel in 1819 . When Louis XVIII. recalled to a bishopric in France on February 12, 1823, Catholics and Protestants tried together, albeit in vain, to petition the king to withdraw this decision.

On May 3, 1823, Pope Pius VII confirmed the appointment of Lefebvre de Cheverus' as Bishop of Montauban . On August 13, 1826 he was appointed Archbishop of Bordeaux and on October 2 of the same year by Pope Leo XII. approved. In the consistory of February 1, 1836 Pope Gregory XVI created it . to the cardinal. He died only a few months later in Bordeaux without having received the cardinal's hat and the title. He found his final resting place in Bordeaux Cathedral .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b A New Diocese, the First Bishop. In: Homepage. Archdiocese of Boston , accessed October 12, 2015 .
predecessor Office successor
Charles-François d'Aviau Du Bois de Sanzay Archbishop of Bordeaux
1826–1836 		François-Auguste-Ferdinand Cardinal Donnet
Jean-Armand Chaudru de Trélissac
(Administrator)		 Bishop of Montauban
1823–1826 		Louis Guillaume Valentin du Bourg PSS
--- Bishop of Boston
1808–1823 		John Bernard Fitzpatrick
personal data
SURNAME Lefebvre de Cheverus, Jean-Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lefebvre de Cheverus, Jean-Louis Anne Madelain (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French clergyman, archbishop of Bordeaux and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Mayenne , France
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1836
Place of death Bordeaux