FREPPEL, CHARLES SMILE (1827-1891)

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FREPPEL, CHARLES SMILE (1827-1891) , French

bishop

and politician, was born at Oberehnheim(Obernai),

Alsace

ALSACE (Ger. Elsass)

, on the 1st of June 1827. He was ordained priest in 1849 and for a short time taught history at the

seminary

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

of Strassburg, where he had previously received his clerical training. In 1854 he was appointed professor of theology at the Sorbonne, and became known as a successful preacher. He went to Rome in 1869, at the instance of Pius IX., to assist in the steps preparatory to the promulgation of the dogma of papal infallibility. He was consecrated

bishop

of Angers in 1870. During the Franco-German war Freppel organized a

body

BODY

of priests to minister to the French prisoners in Germany, and penned an eloquent protest to the emperor William I. against the annexation of

Alsace

ALSACE (Ger. Elsass)

Lorraine

LORRAINE

. In 188o he was elected

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

for Brest and continued to represent it until his death. Being the only priest in the Chamber of Deputies since the death of Dupanloup, he became the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

parliamentary champion of the Church, and, though no orator, was a frequent

speaker

SPEAKER

. On all ecclesiastical affairs Freppel voted with the Royalist and Catholic party, yet on questions in which French colonial prestige was involved, such as the expedition to Tunis, Tong-King, Madagascar (1881, 1883-85), he supported the government of the day. He always remained a staunch Royalist and went so far as to oppose Leo XIII.'s policy
of conciliating the Republic. He died at Angers on the 12th of December 1891. Freppel's historical and theological works forin 30 vols., the best known of which are: Les Peres apostoliques et leur epoque (1859); Les Apologistes chretiens au Ile siecle (2 vols., 186o); Saint Irene et l'eloquence chretienne clans la Gaule aux deux premiers siecles (1861); Tertullien (2 vols., 1863); Saint Cyprien et l'Eglise d'Afrique (1864); Clement d'Alexandrie (1865); Origene (2 vols., 1867).
There are interesting lives by E. Cornut (Paris, 1893) and F. Charpentier (Angers, 1904).

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