Louis-Jacques-Maurice de Bonald

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Cardinal de Bonald in old age

Louis Jacques Maurice de Bonald (* 30th October 1787 in Millau , Département Aveyron , † 25. February 1870 ) was cardinal and archbishop of Lyon .

Life

Bonald as a young canon (Portrait of Ingres - 1816)

The fourth son of the statesman Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise de Bonald was ordained priest on February 22, 1812 after studying in Lyon, Amiens and at the Saint-Sulpice seminary in Paris . He became Vicar General of Chartres in 1817 , then administrator and coadjutor of the Archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal Joseph Fesch , and on March 10, 1823, Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay . He was ordained episcopate on April 27, 1823, by the Bishop of Chartres, Jean-Baptiste de Latil ; Co-consecrators were Bishop Denis Frayssinous and Jean-Pierre Chabons , Bishop of Amiens . In 1839 he became Archbishop of Lyon and Primate of Gaul , on March 1, 1841 by Pope Gregory XVI. accepted into the college of cardinals with the titular church Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio . Also in 1839 he became papal assistant to the throne .

As a zealous advocate of ultramontanism , he primarily fought against the state's education system, which he condemned as unchristian, wrote several pastoral letters in this regard and took part in the demonstrations of the French clergy against the university and for the Jesuits. Appointed to the Senate after the coup d'état of December 2, 1851 , he died on February 25, 1870 after 31 years as Archbishop of Lyon and was buried in the Cathedral of Lyon .

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predecessor Office successor
Joachim-Jean-Xavier d'Isoard (appointed) Archbishop of Lyon
1839–1870 		Jacques-Marie-Achille Ginoulhiac
Joseph-Marie de Galard de Terraub Bishop of Le Puy-en-Velay
1823–1839 		Pierre-Marie-Joseph Darcimoles
personal data
SURNAME Bonald, Louis-Jacques-Maurice de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French clergyman, cardinal and archbishop of Lyon
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Millau , Aveyron department
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1870