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Denis Auguste Affre

The Most Reverend
Denis-Auguste Affre
Servant of God
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)
Orders
Ordination 16 May 1818
Consecration 6 August 1840
by Cardinal Hugues-Robert-Jean-Charles de la Tour d’Auvergne-Lauraquais
Personal details
Born (1793-09-28)September 28, 1793
Saint-Rome-de-Tarn, Aveyron, France
Died June 27, 1848(1848-06-27) (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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