Joseph Bernet

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Joseph Bernet (born September 4, 1770 in Saint-Flour , Auvergne , † July 5, 1846 in Aix-en-Provence ) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop and cardinal .

Life

He came from a middle-class family and was one of five children of the merchant Guillaume Bernet and his wife Jeanne Buisson. After attending school in Saint-Flour, he studied from 1790 at the Saint-Sulpice seminary in Paris . When the seminary was closed in August 1792, Joseph Bernet had not yet completed his studies. During the reign of the terreur , he lived in miserable conditions in Paris, which resulted in his first health problems when he was under 25. At that time he had to visit the hospitals in Paris several times. Since he had no income, he decided to open a private school. A few months later he moved it to Sceaux and taught there for three years.

He received the minor orders on September 19, 1795 and the ordination as subdeacon on September 21 of the same year by the parish priest of Saint-Flour. He was ordained deacon by the Vicar General of Paris . On November 4, 1795, Joseph Bernet received - at night and in the greatest secret - the sacrament of ordination , probably by the Bishop of Gap Jean-Baptiste-Marie de Maillé de La Tour-Landry . As a pastor, he looked after the parish of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs and its neighboring parishes until 1797, when he retired to Orléans to again found a school there. For five years he was vicar at the parish church of Saint-Paterne in Orléans before he became pastor at St-Vincent-de-Paul in Paris. He was also the first almsman of the French royal family.

On March 29, 1827 Joseph Bernet was proposed by the French king for the bishopric of La Rochelle. The Pope preconceived it on June 25 of the same year. He was ordained episcopate on August 12, 1827 in the church of Saint-Sulpice by the Archbishop of Paris Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen ; Co -consecrators were Charles-André-Toussaint-Bruuo-Raraond de la Lande , Bishop of Rodez , and François Feutrier , Bishop of Beauvais . The consecration ceremony was also attended by the bishops Guillaume-Aubin de Villèle , Archbishop of Bourges, and Claude-Joseph-Judith-François-Xavier de Sagey , former Bishop of Tulle . Joseph Bernet put his episcopate under the motto Posuit episcopos regere Ecclesiam Dei ("God appointed the bishops to be rulers of the church"). He was inducted into office on September 14, 1827, and took the oath before King Charles X on October 16 of the same year . Joseph Bernet was appointed Archbishop of Aix on October 6, 1835 and preconized on February 1, 1836. On July 14, 1840 he became papal assistant to the throne .

Pope Gregory XVI created him in the consistory of January 19, 1846 , the last before his death, as cardinal priest . He received the red biretta on February 22nd of the same year from King Louis-Philippe in the Tuileries chapel . Joseph Bernet was so weakened by illnesses that he died on Sunday, July 5th, 1846 at 1:45 p.m. without having received the red hat and a title church . Also at the conclave of 1846 , from which Pius IX. when Pope emerged he could no longer attend. He was buried in the cathedral of Aix-en-Provence .

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literature

  • André Chapeau, Fernand Combaluzier: Épiscopologe français des temps modern, 1592–1973. Letouzey et Ané, Paris 1974, pp. 191-192.
  • Remigius Ritzler, Pirminus Sefrin: Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi. Volume VII (1800-1846). Typis et Sumptibus Domus Editorialis "Il Messaggero di S. Antonio" apud Basilicam S. Antonii, Padua 1968, pp. 35, 83 and 327.

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predecessor Office successor
Jacques Raillon Archbishop of Aix
1835–1846 		Pierre-Marie-Joseph Darcimoles
Gabriel-Laurent Paillou Bishop of La Rochelle
1827–1835 		Clement Villecourt
personal data
SURNAME Bernet, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Flour , Auvergne
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1846
Place of death Aix-en-Provence