Louis-Joseph Maurin

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Portrait of the Cardinal on his funerary stele (Chapel of the Archbishop Primate in the Cathedral of Lyon )

Louis-Joseph Maurin (born February 15, 1859 in La Ciotat , France , † November 16, 1936 in Lyon ) was a French clergyman, Archbishop of Lyon and Primate of France .

Life

Louis-Joseph Maurin studied at the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome, the subjects Catholic theology and philosophy and received on April 8, 1882 the sacrament of priestly ordination . From 1882 he worked as a pastor in various parishes in the Diocese of Marseille and lecturer at the Institute Belzunce. In 1906 he became vicar general and in 1909 rector of the shrine of Notre-Dame de la Garde.

1911 appointed him Pope Pius X to the Bishop of Grenoble . He received his episcopal ordination on October 24, 1911 by the Archbishop of Bordeaux , Cardinal Pierre-Paulin Andrieu ; Co- consecrators were Joseph Antoine Fabre , Bishop of Marseille , and Dominique Castellan , Bishop of Digne . In 1916 Pope Benedict XV commissioned him . with the direction of the Archdiocese of Lyon and accepted him in the same year as a cardinal priest with the titular church Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio in the college of cardinals . From 1918 to 1919 he was also Apostolic Administrator in Langres . Louis-Joseph Maurin acted as papal envoy on several occasions.

He died on November 16, 1936 in Lyon and was buried in the local cathedral .

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predecessor Office successor
Hector-Irénée Cardinal Sévin Archbishop of Lyon
1916–1936 		Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier
personal data
SURNAME Maurin, Louis-Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French clergyman, Archbishop of Lyon and Primate of France
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH La Ciotat , France
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1936
Place of death Lyon