Joseph Alfred Foulon

Joseph Alfred Foulon ( born April 29, 1823 in Paris, † January 23, 1893 in Lyon) was Archbishop of Lyon.

Life and work

Joseph Foulon was born in 1823 in Paris as the son of a tailor, in the parish of St. Eustache. Through the mediation of Frédéric Ozanam, he came as a student to the led by Abbé Félix Dupanloup minor seminary of Saint- Nicolas du Chardonnet. After his theological studies at the Seminary of St. Sulpice and the Karmelitenseminar in Paris, where he graduated with honors, and his simultaneous study of classical literature at the Sorbonne University, he was ordained in Paris on 18 December priest in 1847. Appointed in the same year as teacher of classical literature in the seminar Notre- Dame des Champs, and three years later ( 1850) also the teacher of rhetoric, he taught there for twenty years. From 1863 to 1867 he also served as rector of the seminary and honorary canon at Notre -Dame de Paris cathedral.

Bishop of Nancy

Appointed at the proposal of the Archbishop of Algiers transported predecessor Charles Martial Lavigerie by imperial decree of 12 January 1867, Bishop of Nancy, Foulon was präkonisiert on 27 March 1867, received on 1 May of the same year in the parish church of his native parish of St. Eustache from the hand Lavigeries episcopal ordination and was enthroned in solemn Nancy on May 12.

1869/70 took Foulon in the First Vatican Council, where he was among the minority who opposed the definition of papal infallibility.

Major religious events during Foulons tenure as bishop of Nancy was the consecration of the diocese to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on December 3, 1871, and the crowning of the statue of Our Lady of Sion Lb, solemnly undertook the bishop on 10 September 1873. 1874 was the located on the border of the German Empire diocese as a result of territorial changes after the Franco-German War - the eastern part of Lorraine became part of the German Empire, but not the western part of Nancy - lost a part of its communities. A few months earlier, on April 25, 1874, Bishop was Foulon by a German court in Saverne ( Saverne ) was sentenced in absentia to two months imprisonment, because he in a pastoral letter that was read out in the annexed by the Germans parishes, the " indomitable hopes " ( indomptables Espérances ) of France had expressed on revision of the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine.

By decree of the President of the Republic promoted to Archbishop of Besançon on 22 March 1882 Bishop Foulon was präkonisiert on March 30, but kept as Apostolic Delegate still up to the investiture of his successor Turinaz the governance of the diocese of Nancy.

Archbishop of Besançon

A few days after the appointment of Bishop Foulons Archbishop of Besançon entered the secular French Education Act of 28 March 1882 in force, which prohibited the teaching of religion in public schools and the spiritual school supervision lifted. The new archbishop had their hands full, the resulting implementation for denominational schools limitations imposed to maintain school operations and set up free schools. He also devoted himself to the seminars, the development of a new catechism and several other regulations relating to studies and church conferences. As a former student of Karmelitenseminars in Paris ( Ecole des Carmes ) he felt called to the seminary to add a high school, but had just as little inventory as the one of his predecessor, Cardinal Rohan, was founded.

Archbishop of Lyon, Primate of the Gauls, Cardinal

On March 23, 1887 offset by the President to chair the Archbishop of Lyon and präkonisiert by the Pope on April 26, 1887, Archbishop Foulon moved to Lyon and now wore associated with that Archbishop chair honorary title of Primate ' of Gaul.

In the consistory of May 24, 1889 by Pope Leo XIII. was added to the College of Cardinals as a cardinal priest with the titular church of St. Eusebio, Foulon was the custom of the time corresponding to 27 May in his bishop's palace the red Pileolus ( skullcap ), on June 11 in the chapel of the Elysee palace from the hand of the President of the Republic, Sadi Carnot, the red biretta and on December 30 in Rome the cardinal's hat. On January 4, 1890, he took his titular church in possession.

On May 1, 1890 Cardinal Foulon opened yet been dressed by scaffolding new basilica Notre- Dame de Fourvière in Lyon, in homage to the Mother of God and the people of Lyon, and celebrated the first Mass in it.

Death

Cardinal Foulon died on 23 January 1893. He was buried in the cathedral of Lyon, in the same tomb as his to the day six years earlier deceased predecessor Caverot. His heart was brought des Champs in the chapel of the Seminary of Our Lady.