Pierre Louis Parisis

Pierre Louis Parisis (17 August 1795 – 1866) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Bishopric of Langres in Haute-Marne, France, from 1835 to 1851.^[1] In 1851, he succeeded Hugues de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauragais as Bishop of Arras.

Pierre Louis Parisis

Biography

Parisis was born in 1795 in Orléans, the son of a baker. In 1819 he was ordained a priest for the diocese of Orléans.

Bishop of Langres

In 1834 he was appointed to succeed Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu as Bishop of Langres, and consecrated on February 8, 1835.

As bishop, Parisis issued pastoral instructions on the liturgy.^[2] 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.^[3]

A well-known Catholic speaker and author, he was deputy for Morbihan from 1848 to 1851.^[4] 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.^[5]

Bishop of Arras

In 1851 he was consecrated as Bishop of Arras, which included the former dioceses of Boulogne and St. Omer.^[6]

Parisis was the founder and editor of the Revue des sciences ecclesiastioues, and the author of some apologetical works.

Parisis died in Arras on March 5, 1866.