Joseph Hippolyte Guibert
Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, OMI ( born December 13, 1802 in Aix -en- Provence, † July 8, 1886 in Paris) was a French religious clergyman, Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris.
Life
Joseph Hippolyte Guibert was the son of the farmer Pierre Guibert. At the age of 17 he entered in 1819 the seminary of Aix, which was led at that time by the Sulpizianern. At the beginning of 1823 he joined the community of the Missionaries of Provence and on December 29, 1823, he made his solemn vows. The deacon He was ordained a year later on 18 December 1824 a priest on August 14, 1825 in Marseille by Bishop Charles Fortuné de Mazenod.
He was from 1826 to 1828 Novice Master of Community and 1829-1834 Superior of the house in Notre Dame du Laus. In 1835 he was appointed superior of the seminary of Ajaccio. This office he held six years until he was appointed at the age of 39 years on 30 July 1841 and consecrated Bishop of Viviers in Marseille of Eugene de Mazenod on March 11, 1842 Bishop. Co-consecrators were Bishop Toussaint Casanelli d'Istria and Bishop Pierre Chatrousse. Within five years, he visited all the parishes of his diocese and founded a number of diocesan communities, he also improved the training of clergy.
Bishop Guibert refused the bishoprics of Avignon, Grenoble and Aix, before he was appointed Archbishop of Tours on 4 February 1857. Also, in the diocese of Tours he visited all the parishes. He was involved strengthens the reconstruction of the Basilica of St. Martin. He always defended the rights of the Holy See and participated as a Council Father at the First Vatican Council.
On October 27, 1871, he was called by Pope Pius IX. appointed Archbishop of Paris. He founded in 1875 the Catholic University, the Institut Catholique and later built the Basilica of Sacre Coeur in Montmartre. On 22 December 1873 he was instituted by Pope Pius IX. created cardinal and got the titular church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina assigned. He participated in the conclave of 1878, in which Leo XIII. was elected Pope. He was a popular counselor in the French episcopate. Politically, he did not hesitate to express themselves, where he was it necessary.
Throughout his life remained the strict ascetic of the Congregation of the Missionary Oblates connected and has always been a counselor for their founder and Superior General Eugene de Mazenod and his successor Father Joseph Fabre OMI. Joseph Hippolyte Guibert died on 8 July 1886 and was buried in the Basilica of Sacre Coeur.