Georges Darboy

Georges Darboy ( born January 16, 1813 in Fayl -Billot, † May 24, 1871 in Paris) was Archbishop of Paris.

Life

Georges Darboy was born near Langres, the son of spice merchants, visited the seminary in Langres, and was ordained a priest in 1836. He was assistant priest at Notre Dame in Saint- Dizier and then in 1840 a ​​professor at the seminary in Langres. As the seminar was given to a religious order, Darboy 1845 went to Paris to work for the Parisian Archbishop Denis Affre, where he had been through a translation of the works of Dionysius the Areopagite (Paris 1845) gives prominence.

First Assistant priest at the convent of the Carmelites and in 1846 chaplain of the Lycée Henri IV, he was soon appointed Titularkanonikus of Notre -Dame. In November 1854 he accompanied the Archbishop Marie Auguste Dominique Sibour to Rome and received the Pope the title of Apostolic protonotary first class. In 1855 he was raised to the Titulargeneralvikar of Paris, in 1859 Bishop of Nancy, on January 10, 1863 by imperial decree to the Archbishop of Paris. On 8 January 1864 he was Grand Almoner of the Emperor, on October 5, 1864 Senator and in August 1866 a member of the council of public instruction.

Darboy was of moderate attitude and an enemy of the Jesuit direction, which is why Pope Pius IX. also stubbornly refused to give the very favored by the imperial court bishop a cardinal. At the Vatican Council Darboy denied open as opportuniste the dogma of infallibility, protested against the imposed collectively, a free consultation to the illusion -making Rules of Procedure, entered several times, particularly in his speech of 20 May 1870 on the rights of the bishops and voted against the dogma, but after the proclamation of the same, he acquiesced in silence.

After his return to Paris in July 1870, he remained both during the siege and after the uprising of the Paris Commune of March 18, 1871 at his post. On April 4, Darboy was taken hostage for captured Communards and shot on the evening of May 24 along with the President of the Court of Cassation, Bonjean, the pastor Deguerry and three other ministers in the court of the prison of La Roquette. On June 5, the solemn funeral Darboys was held with the participation of deputations of the great body politic.

Publications

• Les femmes de la Bible ( 8th edition, Paris 1876)
• Les Saintes femmes ( 4th ed 1877)
• La vie de Saint -Thomas Becket (1860 )
• Oeuvre pastoral (1876, 2 volumes)