Maurice Feltin
Maurice Cardinal Feltin (born May 15, 1883 in Delle , Territoire de Belfort , France , † September 27, 1975 in Thiais ) was Archbishop of Bordeaux and later of Paris .
Life
Maurice Feltin studied at the St. Sulpice Seminary in Paris and was ordained a priest on July 3, 1909 . He then worked as a pastor in the diocese of Besançon until 1927 . During the First World War he served as an officer in the French Army and received numerous military awards.
On December 19, 1927, Pope Pius XI appointed him . to the Bishop of Troyes . He was ordained bishop on March 11, 1928, by the Archbishop of Besançon , Charles Cardinal Binet .
Further stations of the episcopate of Maurice Feltin were from 1932 Sens and from December 1935 Bordeaux. During the Second World War he was an opponent of the Vichy regime , whose policy he and other French bishops condemned in February 1944. On October 15, 1949, Pope Pius XII appointed him . to the Archbishop of Paris. There he stood up especially for the workers in the suburbs of the city. In the 1950s, for example, he defended the workers 'priests' movement . Pius XII. accepted him in the consistory on January 12, 1953 as a cardinal priest with the titular church Santa Maria della Pace in the college of cardinals . Cardinal Feltin attended the Second Vatican Council . In 1963 he refused to let Édith Piaf be buried in church because she had lived "in public sin".
In December 1966 he resigned his offices and left the Archdiocese of Paris to his coadjutor and successor Archbishop Pierre Veuillot .
Maurice Cardinal Feltin died on September 27, 1975 in Thiais, near Paris. He was buried in the Metropolitan Basilica of Notre-Dame in Paris.
Apostolic succession
The Apostolic Succession from Cardinal Feltin is documented up to Cardinal Scipione Rebiba :
- Cardinal Charles-Henri-Joseph Binet
- Cardinal Louis-Henri-Joseph Luçon
- Bishop Charles-Émile Freppel
- Cardinal François-Auguste-Ferdinand Donnet
- Bishop Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph de Forbin-Janson
- Cardinal Gustav Maximilian von Croÿ
- Archbishop Jean-Charles de Coucy
- Cardinal Antonio Dugnani
- Cardinal Carlo Rezzonico
- Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Albani
- Clement XIII.
- Benedict XIV.
- Benedict XIII.
- Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni
- Cardinal Ulderico Carpegna
- Cardinal Luigi Caetani
- Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi
- Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale
- Cardinal Girolamo Bernerio , OP
- Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santorio
- Cardinal Scipione Rebiba
Web links
- Entry on Maurice Feltin on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on December 12, 2016.
- Newspaper article about Maurice Feltin in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard |
Archbishop of Paris 1949–1966 |
Pierre Cardinal Veuillot |
| Pierre-Paulin Cardinal Andrieu |
Archbishop of Bordeaux 1935–1949 |
Paul Cardinal Richaud |
| Achille Cardinal Liénart |
President of the French Bishops' Conference 1964–1969 |
François Cardinal Marty |
| Jean-Victor-Emile Chesnelong |
Archbishop of Sens 1932–1935 |
Frédéric Edouard Camille Lamy |
| Laurent Monnier |
Bishop of Troyes 1927–1932 |
Joseph-Jean Heintz |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feltin, Maurice |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Feltin, Maurice Cardinal (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French clergyman, archbishop of Paris and cardinal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dent , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1975 |
| Place of death | Thiais |