Claude-Henri Plantier

Claude-Henri Plantier (1813–1875) was the Catholic Bishop of Nîmes from 1855. He was strongly Ultramontanist and anti-Protestant[1]

Mgr Claude-Henri PLANTIER by Melchior Doze about 1855

He was an important figure in the debates on papal infallibility, with Louis Pie, Bishop of Poitiers, leading up to and at Vatican I. Some of his comments brought a reaction from Bismarck.

He was also an opponent of bullfighting, publishing a pastoral letter hostile to it in 1863.[2]

Works

Règles de la vie sacerdotale (1859)
Pie IX défenseur et vengeur de la vraie civilisation (1866)
Sur les Conciles généraux (1869)

Notes

Brian Fitzpatrick, Catholic Royalism in the Department of the Gard 1814-1852 (2002), p. 182n.
"La tauromachie au 21ème siècle : pourquoi ? Samedi". Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2007-10-28.

External links

(in French) Biography
Walter Troxler (1994). "Claude-Henri Plantier". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). 7. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 715–717. ISBN 3-88309-048-4.

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[1] Brian Fitzpatrick, Catholic Royalism in the Department of the Gard 1814-1852 (2002), p. 182n.

[2] "La tauromachie au 21ème siècle : pourquoi ? Samedi". Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2007-10-28.