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Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet

French cardinal

Field	Value
type	Cardinal
image	Donnet, Ferdinand-François, cardinal, Gallica, Nadar.jpg
caption	Donnet circa 1880.
honorific_prefix	His Eminence
name	Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet
title	Archbishop of Bordeaux
church	Roman Catholic Church
archdiocese	Bordeaux
see	Bordeaux
appointed	19 May 1837
term_end	23 December 1882
predecessor	Jean-Louis Anne-Magdalen Lefebvre de Cheverus
successor	Aimé-Victor-François Guilbert
other_post	Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Via (1853–82)
ordination	7 March 1819
consecration	31 May 1835
consecrated_by	Charles Auguste Marie Joseph, Count of Forbin-Janson
cardinal	15 March 1852
created_cardinal_by	Pope Pius IX
rank	Cardinal-Priest
birth_name	Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet
birth_date	16 November 1795
birth_place	Bourg-Argental, French First Republic
death_date
death_place	Bordeaux, French Third Republic
buried	Bordeaux Cathedral
parents	François Donnet
Madeleine Reynaud
previous_post
motto	Ad fortiter finem suaviter Omnia
coat_of_arms	[[File:Coat of arms of Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet.svg	140px]]

Madeleine Reynaud

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Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet (; 16 November 1795 – 23 December 1882) was a French Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Bordeaux from 1837 until his death. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1852.

Life

His ecclesiastical province corresponded broadly with the Roman Aquitania Secunda (including Poitiers) but also included the French Antilles. Donnet argued forcefully for the canonisation of Christopher Columbus. Earlier he had been titular bishop of Rhosus appointed to the diocese of Nancy and Toul. A major figure in Napoleon III's Liberal Empire period he was renowned for his energy, e.g. in publishing and in the restoration of churches in his diocese of Bordeaux (including Bazas though without that title). Donnet was named cardinal by pope Pius IX in 1852 and participated in the conclave of 1878. Eleven volumes of his pastoral instructions, sermons and writings were posthumously published.

References

"The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary: Pope Pius IX (1846-1878); Consistory of March 15, 1852 (V)".
"Cardinals Created by Pius IX (1846-52)".
[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05132a.htm Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet] - [[Catholic Encyclopedia]] article

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