Louis-Jacques-Maurice de Bonald

Louis -Jacques- Maurice de Bonald (* October 30 1787 in Millau, Aveyron, † February 25, 1870 ) was a cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon.

Life

The son of Louis -Gabriel -Ambroise de Bonald in 1817 vicar general of Chartres, then locum tenens and Coadjutor Archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal Joseph Fesch, 1823 Bishop of Puy. He received his episcopal consecration of the bishop of Chartres, Jean -Baptiste de Latil, on 27 April 1823. 1839 he became archbishop of Lyon and Primate of the Gauls, on 1 March 1841 by Pope Gregory XVI. recorded with the titular church of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio in the College of Cardinals.

As an avid representative of Ultramontanism he fought in the first row of the damn him as unchristian education of the State, adopted in this sense, several pastoral letters and take an interest in the demonstrations of the French clergy against the University and for the Jesuits. After the coup d'etat of December 2, 1851 appointed to the Senate, he died on February 25, 1870 after 31 years as Archbishop of Lyon.

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