Stanislas Touchet
{{Short description|French prelate (1842–1926)}}
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|type = Cardinal
|honorific_prefix = His Eminence
|name = Stanislas Touchet
|image = Mgr Touchet.jpg
|caption = Picture circa 1901.
|title = Bishop of Orléans
|church = Roman Catholic Church
|diocese = Orléans
|see = Orléans
|appointed = 18 May 1894
|term_end = 23 September 1926
|predecessor = Pierre-Hector Coullié
|successor = Jules-Marie-Victor Courcoux
|other_post = Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva (1922-26)
|ordination = 29 June 1872
|consecration = 15 July 1894
|consecrated_by = Flavien-Abel-Antoinin Hugonin
|cardinal = 11 December 1922
|created_cardinal_by = Pope Pius XI
|rank = Cardinal-Priest
|birth_name = Stanislas-Arthur-Xavier Touchet
|birth_date = 13 November 1842
|birth_place = Soliers, French Kingdom
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1926|09|23|1842|11|13}}
|death_place = Orléans, French Third Republic
|buried = Orléans Cathedral
|parents = Louis Modeste Touchet
Stéphanie Félicité Ducellier
|coat_of_arms = 140px
|motto = Spes ac robur }}
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Stanislas-Arthur-Xavier Touchet (13 November 1842 – 23 September 1926) was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Orléans from 1894 until his death, and became a cardinal in 1922.
Biography
Stanislas Touchet was born in Soliers, and studied at the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris. He was ordained to the priesthood on 13 June 1872, and then did pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Besançon until 1894.
On 18 May 1894, Touchet was appointed Bishop of Orléans by Pope Leo XIII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 15 July from Bishop Flavien-Abel Hugonin, with Bishops Abel-Anastase Germain and Charles-Bonaventure Theuret serving as co-consecrators, in the Besançon Cathedral.
After becoming an Assistant at the Pontifical Throne on 19 June 1922, Touchet was created Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria sopra Minerva by Pope Pius XI in the consistory of 11 December of that same year.{{Cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - December 11, 1922 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1922.htm |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=cardinals.fiu.edu}} He would serve as Bishop of Orléans for a period of thirty-two years.
He was also a Knight of the Legion of Honour.{{Cite web |title=Recherche - Base de données Léonore |url=https://www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/ui/notice/360388 |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=www.leonore.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr}}
He died in Orléans, at the age of 77, and is buried in its Cathedral.
Selected Works
- Retraites spirituelles{{Cite book |last=Touchet (card.) |first=Arthur-Stanislas-Xavier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45kTzgEACAAJ |title=Retraites spirituelles: (Conférences préchées aux dames d'Orléans) |date=1922 |publisher=P. Lethielleux |language=fr}}
- La sainte de la patrie{{Cite book |last=Touchet |first=Stanislas-Xavier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XCkpzgEACAAJ |title=La sainte de la patrie |date=1919 |publisher=P. Lethielleux |language=fr}}
- Vie de sainte Jeanne d'Arc
- Pour les Arméniens
- Panégyrique de Jeanne d'Arc
- Ce que fut Jeanne d'Arc
- Oeuvres choisies
- La mission de la vénérable Jeanne d'Arc
- Aux infirmières de France
References
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External links
- [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btouchet.html Catholic-Hierarchy] Wikipedia:SPS
- [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-t.htm#Touchet Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church]
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title=Bishop of Orléans |
before=Pierre-Hector Coullie |
after=Jules-Marie Courcoux |
years=1894–1926 }}
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Category:19th-century French Roman Catholic bishops