Joseph-Christian-Ernest Bourret

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Joseph-Christian-Ernest Bourret CO (born December 9, 1827 Labro , † July 10, 1896 in Rodez ) was a French bishop and cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Joseph Christian Ernest Bourret received in the September 20, 1851 Paris , the ordination of the oratorio . In 1853 he was a professor at the École des Carmes . From 1861 he taught as a professor of canon law at the Sorbonne for ten years . He participated as theologian of the Bishop of Périgueux at the First Vatican Council (1869-1870). During the Paris Commune , he was a military chaplain and tried unsuccessfully to free the Archbishop of Paris Georges Darboy , who was brought before a firing squad and executed. He was then vicar general of Algiers and Périgueux. The French government recommended him on July 19, 1871 for the bishopric of Rodez .

Cardinal Bourret's tomb in the Notre-Dame Cathedral at Rodez

Pope Pius IX appointed him on October 27, 1871 Bishop of Rodez. The Archbishop of Paris , Joseph Hippolyte Guibert OMI , ordained him episcopal on November 30th of the same year; Co-consecrators were the Archbishop of Albi , Jean-Paul-François-Marie-Félix Lyonnet , and the Bishop of Périgueux, Nicolas-Joseph Dabert . On June 12, 1893 Leo XIII took him . as a cardinal priest with the titular church Santa Maria Nuova in the College of Cardinals .

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SURNAME Bourret, Joseph-Christian-Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourret, Joseph-Chrétien-Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cardinal and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Labro , Ardeche department , France
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1896
Place of death Rodez , Aveyron department , France