Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu

Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu was archbishop of cardinal Besancon and .

Biography

Born with Paris on January 20th, 1796, Jacques-Marie-Adrien Mathieu is resulting from a family of traders in silk trade originating in Lyon but installed in the capital after 1789. After studies of right, it is received lawyer on April 16th, 1817 and between as clerk at Me Peytel, solicitor in Paris. But it chooses to enter to the seminar of Saint-Sulpice on January 1st, 1819. Hardly ordered on June 20th, 1822, it is named titular canon of Notre-Dame de Paris and adviser of Mgr of Quélen, then one month later, it is destined for Evreux by Mgr Salmon of Châtelier, auprès of which it occupies the functions of secretary, of honorary general vicar and of superior of the seminar. August 4th, 1828, it finds the loads of titular canon and honorary general vicar at Mgr of Quélen. Lastly, last mark of confidence on behalf of the archbishop of Paris, it is named cleaned important parish of the Madeleine on April 18th, 1831.

September 23rd, 1832, a royal decree names the abbot Mathieu bishop of Langres. But it is promoted with the seat archiépiscopal of Besancon as of on June 23rd, 1834 and on November 25th, 1834 settles there. Near to the internonce, and related to the governmental mediums, it acquires a great influence in the bishop nomination. Created cardinal on September 30th, 1850, it is installed at the time of the consistory of March 18th, 1852, with the title of priest of New Year's Eve in capite . Moreover, under the terms of the constitution of 1852, the Mathieu cardinal becomes, of right, member of the Sénat, where it intervenes on several occasions.

Very active prelate and remarkable administrator, his episcopate is especially marked by an activism builder - 320 built churches, rebuilt or restored in the diocese. Its international influence was not either negligible.

Bishop gallican moderated, near to Mgr Dupanloup, it refuses to adopt the Roman liturgy in his diocese until 1874. If it always defended the temporal sovereignty of the pope, it belongs to the minority at the time of the Council of 1870 but subjects at once to the definition of the dogma of the pontifical Infaillibilité.

He dies on July 9th, 1875 in Besancon.

Sources

Mgr Louis Besson, Life of Mgr Mathieu , Paris, Retaux-Bray, 1882,2 vol.; Rene Surugue, archbishops of Besancon. Biographies and portraits , Besancon, 1931; Maurice Rey (under the direction of), History of the dioceses of Besancon and Saint-Claude , Paris, Beauchesne, 1977: Jacques-Olivier Boudon, the French episcopate at the time certificated , Paris, Stag, 1996.

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