Louis-Joseph Maurin

Louis -Joseph Cardinal Maurin (* February 15, 1859 in La Ciotat, France, † November 16, 1936 in Lyon) was Archbishop of Lyon.

Life

Louis -Joseph Maurin studied at the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome, the subjects Catholic theology and philosophy and received on 8 April 1882, the sacrament of Holy Orders. From 1882 he worked as a pastor in various parishes of the Diocese of Marseille and lecturer at the Institute Belzunce. In 1906 he became vicar-general and in 1909 rector of the shrine of Notre- Dame de la Garde.

1911 he was appointed by Pope Pius X. Bishop of Grenoble. The bishop He was ordained on October 24, 1911 by the Archbishop of Bordeaux, Pierre -Paulin Cardinal Andrieu. 1916 commissioned by Pope Benedict XV. with the management of the Archdiocese of Lyon and took him in the same year as cardinal priest with the titular church of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio in the College of Cardinals to. From 1918 to 1919 he was also Apostolic Administrator in Langres. Louis -Joseph Maurin acted on several occasions as a Papal envoy. He died on 16 November 1936 in Lyon and was buried in the local cathedral.