Denis Auguste Affre

Denis Auguste Affre ( born September 27, 1793 in Saint- Rome de Tarn, Aveyron, † June 25, 1848 in Paris) was Archbishop of Paris.

Life

Affre received on 16 May 1818 and was ordained priest in the same year professor of theology at the seminary of St Sulpice de Paris. In 1821 he became vicar general in Luçon and 1823 in Amiens. He gained great contributions to establishment and improvement of elementary schools, the education of the clergy and to the financial administration of the diocese. Since 1834 living as a canon and Titularvikar in Paris, he was appointed on 11 December 1839 Coadjutor Bishop of Strasbourg and confirmed by the Pope on April 27, 1840. At the same time he was appointed Titular Bishop of Pompeiopolis in Cilicia. Already on June 4 of the same year he was appointed Archbishop of Paris and confirmed on July 13. He received his episcopal consecration of the Bishop of Arras, Hugues -Robert -Jean -Charles de la Tour d' Auvergne - Lauraquais, on August 6, 1840. Were co-consecrators the Bishop of Versailles, Louis -Marie- Edmond de Bailleul Blanquard, and the bishop of Meaux, Auguste Allou.

Until then, a zealous Gallican, he turned on the issue of freedom of education against the king and joined the revolution of February 1848. As a resolute supporter of the Second Republic, he found on June 25, 1848 death, when he had climbed the barricades in June uprising, to make peace.

Works (selection)

• Christianity and science or philosophical introduction to the study of Christianity ( "Introduction à l' étude du christianisme Philosophique "). Habicht Verlag, Bonn, 1846.