Auguste Sibour

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Archbishop Sibour (around 1850)

Marie Dominique Auguste Sibour (born April 4, 1792 in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux , Département Drôme , † January 3, 1857 in Paris ) was Archbishop of Paris .

Life

Sibour studied in the seminars of Viviers and Saint-Charles in Avignon theology . He was ordained a priest on June 14, 1818. In 1817 he became senior vicar at the parish of the Paris Mission and in 1819 received a canon benefice in Pont-Saint-Esprit , where he used his leisure to further his education in canon law . In 1838 he became vicar general in Nîmes .

In 1839 he was appointed by Pope Gregory XVI. the Bishop of the Diocese of Digne appointed and on 25 February 1840 by the Archbishop of Aix Joseph Bernet ordained . At the instigation of the Republican Party in October 1848 Archbishop appointed by Paris, he performed on 30 January 1853, the marriage of the Emperor Napoleon III. with Eugénie de Montijo , Countess of Teba. In 1849 he had given him the Hôtel du Châtelet as the archbishop's palace; the old bishop's residence at Notre-Dame Cathedral was set on fire after the July Revolution of 1830 .

Archbishop Sibour was murdered on January 3, 1857 in the parish church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris by the suspended priest Jean-Louis Verger with a knife stab in the heart.

Street sign at the Saint-Laurent church

The rue Sibour at the Saint-Laurent church in Paris and the pear variety Archbishop Sibour were named after Auguste Sibour .

Works

  • Institutions diocésaines , 1845
  • Mandements , 1851-52

literature

  • Jean-Joseph-François Poujoulat: Vie de Monseigneur Sibour: archevêque de Paris, ses oeuvres, sa mort. Repos, Paris 1857, 2nd edition 1863, digitized on Gallica

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hôtel du Châtelet, timetable  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / travail-emploi.gouv.fr  
  2. ↑ Augsburger Postzeitung of January 7, 1857 (digitized copy at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Accessed on December 12, 2018)
predecessor Office successor
Denis-Auguste Affre Archbishop of Paris
1840 - 1857 		François Cardinal Morlot
François-Melchior-Charles-Bienvenu de Miollis Bishop of Digne
1839 - 1840 		Marie-Julien Meirieu
personal data
SURNAME Sibour, Auguste
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sibour, Marie Dominique Auguste (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Paris
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux , Drôme department
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1857
Place of death Paris