François-Marie-Anatole de Rovérié de Cabrières

Cardinal Anatole de Cabrières

François-Marie-Anatole Cardinal de Rovérié de Cabrières (born August 30, 1830 in Beaucaire , France , † December 21, 1921 in Montpellier ) was Bishop of Montpellier .

Life

François-Marie-de Anatole de Cabrières Rovérié studied at the Collège de l'Assomption in Nîmes and at the Collège Saint-Sulpice in Paris Catholic theology and received on 24 September 1853 in Nîmes, the sacrament of Holy Orders . He then worked until 1874 as a parish chaplain, head of a boys' seminary and episcopal secretary in the diocese of Nîmes. On January 16, 1874, he was appointed Bishop of Montpellier. He was ordained episcopate by the Bishop of Nîmes , Claude-Henri Plantier ; Co- consecrators were Julien Meirieu , Bishop of Digne , and Gaspard Mermillod , auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Lausanne and Geneva .

In 1890 he was authorized to wear the pallium . In 1911 Pope Pius X accepted him as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in the college of cardinals . He was a participant in the 1914 conclave , in which Pope Benedict XV. was chosen.

François-Marie-Anatole de Rovérié de Cabrières died on December 21, 1921 at 6.30 a.m. in Montpellier and was buried in the Montpellier Cathedral.

Gabriel de Llobet : François-Marie-Anatole de Rovérié de Cabrières. Le Cardinal Cabrières. Le Bonne Presse, Paris 1944.
Gérard Cholvy: Le Cardinal de Cabrières (1830-1921). Un siècle d'histoire de la France. Le Cerf, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-20-408209-9 .

predecessor	Office	successor
François-Marie-Joseph Lecourtier	Bishop of Montpellier 1874–1921	René-Pierre Mignen

personal data
SURNAME	Rovérié de Cabrières, François-Marie-Anatole de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rovérié de Cabrières, François-Marie-Anatole de Cardinal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French clergyman, bishop of Montpellier and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH	August 30, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH	Beaucaire
DATE OF DEATH	December 21, 1921
Place of death	Montpellier