Félix Dupanloup

Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup ( born January 3, 1802 in Saint- Félix, Haute Savoie, † October 11, 1878 at Castle Lacombe at Grenoble) was Roman Catholic bishop of Orléans.

Life

Dupanloup, ordained a priest in 1825, was from 1834 to 1845 episcopal school principal in Paris ( Seminary of Saint- Nicolas- du- Chardonnet ), later professor of rhetoric at the Sorbonne. He was also director of the journal L'ami de la religion ( friend of the religion).

Félix Dupanloup was consecrated in 1849 as Bishop of Orléans and remained until his death in office in 1878. Dupanloup entered his life for the freedom of the Church ( " libertas ecclesiae ").

At times, led Bishop Dupanloup the Petit Séminaire de la Chapelle -St- Mesmin near Orléans, where he also the young Paul Gauguin taught in Catholic liturgy and philosophy, which should greatly influence his artistic development.

In 1865 Pope Pius IX approved. its restrictive interpretation of the Syllabus of Errors. He held in 1870, the definition of papal infallibility by the council, although inopportune, recognized the dogma but immediately.

In 1875, he appeared as a member of the Académie française back to protest against the election of Emile Littre, the author of the Dictionnaire de la langue française and the same year published his book against Freemasonry: Etude sur la Franc- Maçonnerie.

Felix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup died in 1878 at the age of 76 years. His imposing, in 1886, created by Henri Chapu marble tomb stands in Orléans Cathedral of Ste -Croix since 1888.

Works (selection)

• Atheism and the risk sociale, 1867 in German translation
• L' Evèque d' Orléans: Etude sur la Franc- Maçonnerie. Paris 1875, 92 pp.; in German translation: Freemasonry. Mainz 1875