Léon-François Sibour

Léon-François Sibour (born February 9, 1807 in Istres , † November 18, 1864 in Antibes ) was a French clergyman and Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Paris .

Life

Léon Sibour was a cousin of the Archbishop of Paris, Auguste Sibour . He attended the small seminary in Aix and then studied at the major seminary there . After being ordained a subdeacon, he taught at the minor seminary and served as secretary to the Archbishop of Aix , Charles-Alexandre de Richery . Ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Aix in December 1832 , he studied church history and received his doctorate in theology in 1838 . In 1841 he became vicar general of his cousin, then Bishop of Digne , whom he accompanied on his travels to Rome and Algeria , and in 1842 professor of church history at the theological faculty in Aix. In 1845 he received the Cross of the Legion of Honor . In 1848 he was elected to the Constituent Assembly as a representative of the people for the Ardèche department and took possession of the Archdiocese of Paris on September 28 for his cousin transferred from Digne-les-Bains to Paris , where he became honorary canon and again vicar general, and in 1849 archdeacon from Notre-Dame . In 1850 he took over the parish of St. Thomas Aquinas in Paris.

From Napoleon III. auxiliary bishop in Paris appointed Sibour was in the papal consistory of 27 September 1854 titular bishop of Tripoli in Phenicia präkonisiert , the same year in December assisted in the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in Rome and received on 7 January 1855 in the Roman Church of Santa Trinità dei Monti by Cardinal Patrizi the episcopal ordination . Co- consecrators were his cousin Sibour and Bishop Félix Dupanloup of Orléans .

After the murder of his cousin on January 3, 1857, Sibour resigned his episcopate and took a position as a canon at Saint-Denis . In 1862 Pope Pius IX honored him . with whom he corresponded with a breve . He died on November 18, 1864.

Léon Sibour was a member of the 'Académie de Sciences et de Belles-Lettres' in Aix since 1838, also its president for several years, and since 1855 a member of the Catholic Academy in Rome. He published his dissertation and several articles on church history in the journals of the two academies .

literature

• H [onoré Jean Pierre] Fisquet: La France pontificale. Paris: Repos, 1864–1871
• Dictionnaire des parlementaires français. Paris: Bourloton, 1889–1891