Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra

Catholic cardinal and archaeologist

His Eminence

Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra

O.S.B.

Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals

Pitra in 1871.

Church| Roman Catholic Church
Appointed| 24 March 1884
Term ended| 9 February 1889
Predecessor| Camillo Di Pietro
Successor| Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano
Other post(s)| Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina (1884-89)
Orders
Ordination| 13 December 1836
by Bénigne-Urbain-Jean-Marie du Trousset d'Héricourt
Consecration| 1 June 1879
by Pope Leo XIII
Created cardinal| 16 March 1863
by Pope Pius IX
Rank| Cardinal-Priest (1863–79)
Cardinal-Bishop (1879–89)
Personal details
Born|

Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra

1 August 1812

Champforgeuil, First French Empire

Died| 9 February 1889(1889-02-09) (aged 76)
San Callisto convent, Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Parents| Laurent Pitra
Edme-Françoise Vaffier
Previous post(s)|

* Cardinal-Priest of San Tommaso in Parione (1863–67)
* Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto (1867–79)
* Librarian of the Vatican Apostolic Library (1869–75)
* Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives (1869–79)
* Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (1879–84)

Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra, OSB (1 August 1812 – 9 February 1889) was a French Catholic cardinal, archaeologist and theologian.

He was born in Champforgeuil. Joining the Benedictine Order, he entered the Abbey of Solesmes in 1842, and was collaborator of Abbe Migne in the latter's Patrologia latina and Patrologia Graeca. He was created cardinal in 1863, and was given the titular church of San Callisto in 1867,[1] before being appointed librarian of the Vatican Library in 1869. He is especially noteworthy for his great archaeological discoveries, including the Inscription of Autun, and is the author of numerous works on archaeological, theological, and historical subjects.

Pitra died in Rome.

## Works[edit]

* Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata (in Latin). Vol. 1\. Paris. 1876.
* Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata (in Latin). Vol. 2\. Paris. 1884.
* Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata (in Latin). Vol. 4\. Paris. 1883.
* Paulin Martin; Jean Baptiste François Pitra (2010). Analecta Sacra Patrum Antenicaenorum ex Codicibus Orientalibus : Syriac and Armenian Fragments of Ante-Nicene Writings. Syriac Studies Library (in Latin and English) (2nd ed.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. ISBN 9781463224349. OCLC 1110709933 - via archive.is. `{{cite book}}`: External link in ``|via=`` (help)

* Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata, 1876

## See also[edit]

* List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ Cardinal Title S. Callisto – GCatholic.org

## References[edit]

* This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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