Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour

Marie Auguste Dominique Sibour ( born April 4, 1792 in Saint -Paul -Trois -Châteaux, Dép Drôme, . † January 3, 1857 in Paris) was Archbishop of Paris.

Life

Sibour studied in the seminary of Viviers and St. Charles in Avignon theology. On 14 June 1818, he was ordained a priest. He was vicar of the parish in 1817 top of the Paris mission and received 1819 Domherrnpfründe in Pont -Saint -Esprit, to where he used his leisure to educate yourself in canon law. In 1838 he became vicar general in Nîmes.

In 1839 he was called by Pope Gregory XVI. appointed bishop of the Diocese of Digne and consecrated on February 25, 1840 by the Archbishop of Aix Joseph Bernet. Appointed at the behest of the Republican party In October 1848, Archbishop of Paris, he performed on January 30, 1853, the marriage of the Emperor Napoleon III. with Eugénie de Montijo, Countess of Teba. This had left him in 1849, the Hôtel du Châtelet as archiepiscopal palace; the old bishop's residence at the Notre Dame Cathedral had been put after the July Revolution of 1830 in fire.

Archbishop Sibour was murdered on January 3, 1857 in the parish church of Saint- Étienne -du -Mont in Paris of the suspended priest Jean -Louis Verger.

After Auguste Sibour Rue Sibour was named to the Saint-Laurent church in Paris.

Works

• Institutions diocésaines, 1845
• Mandements, 1851-52