François de Rovérié de Cabrières

François-Marie-Anatole de Rovérié de Cabrières (30 August 1830 – 21 December 1921) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Montpellier from 1874 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1911.


François de Rovérié de Cabrières
Bishop of Montpellier
The cardinal seen in a postcard.
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
DioceseMontpellier
SeeMontpellier
Appointed16 January 1874
Term ended21 December 1921
PredecessorFrançois-Marie-Joseph Lecourtier
SuccessorRené-Pierre Mignen
Other post(s)Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Vittoria (1911-21)
Orders
Ordination24 September 1853
by Jean-François-Marie Cart
Consecration19 March 1874
by Claude-Henri-Augustin Plantier
Created cardinal27 November 1911
by Pope Pius X
RankCardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born
François-Marie-Anatole de Rovérié de Cabrières

30 August 1830
Died21 December 1921(1921-12-21) (aged 91)
Montpellier, French Third Republic
BuriedMontpellier Cathedral
ParentsEugène de Cabrières
Yvonne Guillemette Du Vivier de Fay-Solignac
MottoNon humore terrae vigebit - nihil nisi divinum timere
Coat of armsFrançois de Rovérié de Cabrières's coat of arms
Styles of
François de Rovérié de Cabrières
Reference styleHis Eminence
Spoken styleYour Eminence
Informal styleCardinal
SeeMontpellier

Biography edit

François de Rovérié de Cabrières was born in Beaucaire, and studied at College of the Assumption in Nîmes, and the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris.

He was ordained to the priesthood on 24 September 1853 and then did pastoral work in Nîmes until 1874, serving as director of the Minor Seminary of Nîmes and of Collège de l'Assomption (1855-1859), and private secretary to Bishop Claude-Henri Plantier. He was also made a cathedral canon on 5 January 1871, and later honorary vicar general.

On 16 January 1874, Rovérié was appointed Bishop of Montpellier by Pope Pius IX. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 19 March from Bishop Plantier, with Bishops Julien Meirireu and Gaspard Mermillod serving as co-consecrators. Rovérié was granted the right to wear the pallium, traditionally reserved for metropolitan bishops, on 15 July 1890.

Pope Pius X created him Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Vittoria in the consistory of 27 November 1911. Rovérié was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1914 papal conclave, which selected Pope Benedict XV.

Cardinal Rovérié died in Montpellier, at the age of 91. He is buried in the cathedral of Montpellier.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of Montpellier
1874–1921
Succeeded by
Records
Preceded by Eldest Member of the Sacred College
5 December 1914 – 21 December 1921
Succeeded by