Louis-Édouard Pie

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Louis-Édouard-François-Désiré Pie (around 1860)
West facade of Poitiers Cathedral

Louis-Édouard-François-Désiré Pie (born September 26, 1815 in Pontgouin , Eure-et-Loir department ; † May 18, 1880 in Angoulême , Charente department ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Poitiers in France and cardinal .

Life

Louis Pie attended the seminary of the Diocese of Chartres and was enrolled in the St. Sulpice seminary in Paris . On May 25, 1839, he was ordained a priest as diocesan priest of the Diocese of Chartres. He then worked as vicar in Chartres Cathedral and was appointed vicar general in 1844 .

Bishop of Poitiers

His election as Bishop of Poitiers took place on May 29, 1849 and was confirmed on September 28, 1849. The Bishop of Chartres, Claude-Hippolyte Clausel de Montals , donated him episcopal ordination on November 25 of the same year . Co - consecrators were Pierre-Louis Parisis , Bishop of Langres , and Jean-Nicaise Gros , Bishop of Versailles

Pie quickly became the leader of the French ultramontanes . He acted as a bishop against the “liberal” Catholics and turned against Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup , Bishop of Orléans, who advocated a milder reading of the Syllabus errorum . He was the determining personality of the provincial synod of the ecclesiastical province of Bordeaux .

Bishop Pie established numerous new parishes . His main concern was to promote the veneration of the saints Hilary of Poitiers , which is why he also built the national reliquary in honor of Hilary.

Initially, Bishop Pie was not a proponent of the dogma of the Pope's infallibility , as laid down in the Dogmatic Constitution Pastor Aeternus of 1870. However, he changed his mind after attending the First Vatican Council (1869-1870) and became an advocate of this dogma.

Founding of the order

Bishop Pie founded the Ambrosian Order of the Oblates of St. Hilary of Poitiers and brought the Jesuits and Benedictines into his diocese .

Consecrations

Bishop Pie consecrated Joseph-Frédéric Saivet as Bishop of Mende , Albert-Marie-Camille de Briev as Bishop of Saint-Dié and Albert-Marie-Camille de Briey as Titular Bishop of Rhosus ( Coadjutor Bishop of Meaux ) and Bishop Charles-Louis Gay as Auxiliary Bishop in Poitiers. He was co-consecrator in the ordinations of Antoine-Charles Cousseau as Bishop of Angoulême , Louis-Théophile Palluc du Parc as Bishop of Blois and Alexandre-Léopold Sebaux as Bishop of Angloulême.

cardinal

On May 12, 1879, the first consistory of 1879, he was appointed by Pope Leo XIII. (1878–1903) elevated to cardinal , on September 22, 1879 he received the red biretta . As a cardinal priest, the titular church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome was given to him.

Louis Pie died on May 17, 1880 and was buried in Poitiers Cathedral.

Selected writings in German translation

  • Cardinal Pie of Poitiers. Successor of St. Hilary. Selected texts , edited and introduced by Michael Fiedrowicz . Carthusianus Verlag, Fohren-Linden 2014, ISBN 978-3-941862-17-3 .
  • Cardinal Pie of Poitiers - Renew all in Christ. Episcopal words for the re-establishment of a Christian society , edited by Michael Fiedrowicz. Carthusianus Verlag, Fohren-Linden 2015, ISBN 978-3-941862-19-7 .

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Footnotes

  1. ^ A b c Roger Aubert: Art. Pie, Louis . In: Lexicon for Theology and Church , 3rd ed., Vol. 8, Col. 286.
personal data
SURNAME Pie, Louis-Édouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pie, Louis-Édouard-François-Désiré Cardinal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic Bishop of Poitiers in France
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Pontgouin , Eure-et-Loir department , France
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1880
Place of death Angoulême