Denis-Auguste Affre
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The Most Reverend Denis-Auguste Affre Servant of God |
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| Archbishop of Paris | |
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| See | Paris |
| Installed | 4 June 1840 |
| Term ended | 27 June 1848 |
| Predecessor | Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen |
| Successor | Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour |
| Other posts |
Coadjutor Bishop of Strasbourg (1839–1840); Titular Bishop of Pompeiopolis in Cilicia (1839–1840); Vicar General of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Amiens and then of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Luçon (1823–1833) |
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| Ordination | 16 May 1818 |
| Consecration | 6 August 1840 by Cardinal Hugues-Robert-Jean-Charles de la Tour d’Auvergne-Lauraquais |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 28, 1793 Saint-Rome-de-Tarn, Aveyron, France |
| Died | June 27, 1848 (aged 54) Paris, France |
| Buried | Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, France |
| Nationality | French |
Denis-Auguste Affre (27 September 1793 – 27 June 1848) was Archbishop of Paris from 1840 to 1848. He was killed while trying to negotiate peace during the June Days uprising of 1848.
His cause of canonization has commenced and he is titled as a Servant of God.
Affre was born at Saint-Rome-de-Tarn, in the department of Aveyron. At the age of 14, he began to study for the priesthood at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, which was under the direction of his uncle, the Abbé Denis Boyer, S.S. He was an excellent student, and, while still a seminarian, soon became an instructor of dogmatic theology at the seminary in Nantes.
In 1818, he was ordained as a Catholic priest. From 1823 to 1833 he served as the Vicar General, first of the Diocese of Luçon and then of Amiens. In 1839, he was appointed as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Strasbourg.
Affre was elevated to the post of Archbishop of Paris in 1840. Though opposed to the government of King Louis-Philippe I, he fully accepted the establishment of the French Second Republic in 1848; nevertheless he took no part in politics, but devoted himself to pastoral care. He opened new parishes in the working-class neighborhoods of the city. Among them were Ménilmontant, Plaisance, Petit-Montrouge, Maison-Blanche, Petit-Gentilly, Notre-Dame de la Gare, Billancourt, Gros-Caillou.
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