Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos

Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Davalos ( born March 21, 1816 in Zamora, † February 4, 1891 in Oacalco in Yautepec de Zaragoza, Morelos ) was a Mexican priest of the 19th century, Archbishop of Mexico on 18 March 1863 to his death, also a lawyer, Doctor of Canon Law and politician. Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Davalos was a member ( June 18, 1863 to November 17, 1863), which ruled Mexico, and invited Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria to the throne of Mexico to the imperial regency

Spiritual career

1830 Labastida entered the seminary in Morelia, where he was appointed professor and director later. Among his classmates were among Clemente de Jesús Núñez y Munguia, who later became Archbishop of Michoacán and Melchor Ocampo, future secretary of state.

Labastida was ordained priest in 1839. He quickly became known as a conservative Orator, known preacher against the liberal and democratic ideas and adversary of the Freemasons. In 1854, he became a canon's in Morelia. Labastida opposed the doctrines of the Liberal Melchor Ocampo and Miguel Lerdo de Tejada and treated them as heretics. After the victory of the conservatives under Antonio López de Santa Anna in July 1855 Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Davalos was consecrated bishop of Tlaxcala in the Cathedral of Mexico City. In December 1855, he assisted with finances of the Diocese of the rebellion of Antonio Haro y Tamariz, because the federal government had ordered the sale of all goods of the diocese.

After the return of the Liberals to power in 1857, Labastida went into exile in Europe, where he meditated the overthrow of the liberal government. After the Conservatives came to power again, he was invited by General Miguel Miramón return to Mexico. Later Labastida went again into exile. In 1862 he visited Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria in Trieste. Beginning of 1863, he met the Pope Pius IX .. On March 18, 1863 Pius IX appointed. Labastida Archbishop of Mexico.

Intervention

On June 10, 1863, French troops arrived in the Mexican capital, the General Élie -Frédéric Forey convened a council of nobles, in order to lay the foundations for a Mexican Empire. It remained only to determine who should be given the crown. Labastida was the one who suggested Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria, whose election was hailed also peaceful.

On June 21, 1863 Labastida was selected by the council of the nobles Juan Nepomuceno Almonte and together with José Mariano Salas to reign. The triumvirate sent a delegation to Europe to offer the crown of Maximilian of Austria. Labastida was on November 17, 1863, discontinued because of a quarrel with François Achille Bazaine -, commander of the French troops, because Bazaine napolénonische the program sought to enforce respect of ecclesiastical goods. Juan Bautista de Ormaechea, Bishop of Tulancingo, was his successor. Likewise worsened his relationship with Maximilian, when the latter proclaimed the freedom of religion. Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Davalos wrote in reference to the ecclesiastical goods, the representatives of the oligarchy consider the loss of the Church's riches indifferent or even wear it with, which they destroy the cloaking themselves protective wall.

After the end of the Empire and the introduction of the Republic in 1867 Labastida returned to Europe without resign from his office of archbishop. In this function Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Davalos participated in the First Vatican Council 1869-70. 1871 allowed him the president Benito Juárez, to return to his country.