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Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert (; 13 December 1802 in
Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert was born on 13 December 1802, Aix-en-Provence to Pierre and Rose-Françoise Pécout Guilbert. His father was a farmer and property manager for the Count of Felix. Joseph Hippolyte was baptized on 19 December in the Church of St. John of Malta, where he was later an altar boy, and took Latin classes.
In 1819, Guibert entered the major seminary in Aix, and received 
Guibert was appointed 
Guibert participated in the 1878 conclave. His tenure also saw the construction of "Guibert, Joseph-Hippolyte", ''Treccani''
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Aix-en-Provence
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, Bouches-du-Rhône – 1886, Paris) was a French Catholic Archbishop of Paris
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and Cardinal
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. A member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
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, his tenure as archbishop saw the establishment of the Institut Catholique de Paris
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History: 1875–present
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and the construction of Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre
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Life
Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert was born on 13 December 1802, Aix-en-Provence to Pierre and Rose-Françoise Pécout Guilbert. His father was a farmer and property manager for the Count of Felix. Joseph Hippolyte was baptized on 19 December in the Church of St. John of Malta, where he was later an altar boy, and took Latin classes.
In 1819, Guibert entered the major seminary in Aix, and received minor orders
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on 1 June 1822. Despite the opposition of his father, he joined the "Missionaries of Provence" and began his novitiate in January 1823 Guibert was ordained a priest in 1825.
Guibert was appointed bishop of Viviers
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in 1841, and archbishop of Tours
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in 1857. He attended the First Vatican Council
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, where he was counted among the moderates. He became Archbishop of Paris in 1871, and a Cardinal in 1873. Cardinal Guibert called upon Maurice Le Sage d'Hauteroche d'Hulst to take part in the administration of the diocese, but he was engaged principally in founding and organizing the Université Catholique de Paris.
Guibert participated in the 1878 conclave. His tenure also saw the construction of Sacré-Cœur, Paris
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Guibert died on 8 July 1886 in Paris and is buried in Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre
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His writings are collected in the ''Oeuvres pastorales'' (5 vols., 1868-89)./ref>
References
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