Pierre Louis Parisis (17 August 1795 – 1866) was the
Roman Catholic
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Haute-Marne
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, from 1835 to 1851. In 1851, he succeeded Hugues de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauragais as Bishop of Arras.
Biography
Parisis was born in 1795 in
Orléans
Orléans (,"Orleans" (US) and diocese of Orléans.
Bishop of Langres
In 1834 he was appointed to succeed
Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu
Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu (1796–1875) was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and archbishop of Besançon.
Life
Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu was born on 20 January 1796 in Paris, where his father was a commi ...
as
Bishop of Langres
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The diocese is now a suffragan in ecclesias ...
, and consecrated on February 8, 1835.
As bishop, Parisis issued pastoral instructions on the liturgy. In 1847 he founded the "Archconfraternity of Reparation for blasphemy and the neglect of Sunday" in the Church of St. Martin de La Noue at Saint-Dizier.
A well-known Catholic speaker and author, he was deputy for Morbihan from 1848 to 1851. He is noted for his discussions in the Assembly of 1848 concerning educational reform and for establishing the ecclesiastical College of St. Dizier. He was a member of the commission which prepared the draft for the Falloux Laws.
Bishop of Arras
In 1851 he was consecrated as Bishop of Arras, which included the former dioceses of
Boulogne
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