Victor-Félix Bernadou

Victor-Félix Bernadou as Archbishop of Sens (1870)

Victor-Félix Bernadou (born June 25, 1816 in Castres , France , † November 15, 1891 in Sens ) was a French clergyman and archbishop of Sens and cardinal .

Life

Bernadou studied at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris and received on 19 December 1840, the priestly ordination . He then went to the Diocese of Algiers in Algeria to do pastoral work there. In 1847 he became canon and archpriest of the cathedral chapter there .

In April 1862 he returned to France when he was elected Bishop of Gap . He was ordained episcopate on June 29th of the same year by Jean-Joseph-Marie-Eugène de Jerphanion , Archbishop of Albi . Co - consecrators were Louis-Antoine Pavy , Bishop of Algiers, and Jean-Jacques Bardou , Bishop of Cahors . The inauguration took place on July 10th. Pope Pius IX appointed him in 1866 as papal assistant to the throne . In May 1867 he was elected the new Archbishop of Sens and took office in July of the same year. From 1869 to 1870 Bernadou took part in the First Vatican Council as a council father . During the Franco-Prussian War he wrote to the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and asked for his episcopal city Sens, in which numerous churches had already been converted into hospitals, to be spared.

Pope Leo XIII. accepted him in the consistory on June 7, 1886 as cardinal priest of Santa Trinità dei Monti in the college of cardinals . Five years later, in November 1891, Victor-Félix Bernadou died at the age of 75 and was buried in the Cathedral of Sens .

Cardinal Bernadou was one of the bishops who did not belong to the so-called Rebibaline , but to the line of Cardinal Guillaume d'Estouteville .

predecessor	Office	successor
Mellon de Jolly	Archbishop of Sens 1867-1891	Pierre-Marie-Etienne-Gustave Ardin

personal data
SURNAME	Bernadou, Victor-Félix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French clergyman, archbishop of Sens and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH	June 25, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH	Castres , France
DATE OF DEATH	November 15, 1891
Place of death	Sens