Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu
Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu (1796–1875) was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and archbishop of Besançon. Life 
Jacques-Marie-Adrien-Césaire Mathieu was born January 20, 1796, in Paris, where his father was a commission agent in the silk trade. Jacques-Marie's brother became a distinguished captain in the Franch Navy. Jacques-Marie studied law and worked for a solicitor, managing property for the Montmorency family. In 1819, Mathieu entered Saint-Sulpice Seminary and was ordained a priest on June 1, 1822. In 1823, he was appointed secretary to Charles-Louis Salmon de Chatellier, bishop of Evreux, who named him vicar-general and superior of the diocesan seminary. He was made a titular canon of Paris in 1828 and promoter of the Legal Office of the archdiocese of Paris in 1829. He was elected bishop of Langres on December 17, 1832. On February 10, 1833, he was consecrated in the Carmelite Church on the Rue de Vaugirard in Paris, by Archbishop Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen assisted by Bishops Pierre-Marie Cottret and Marie-Joseph de Prilly. On September 30, 1834, he assumed the metropolitan see of Besançon, where he remained until his death. On September 30, 1850, Pope Pius IX elevated him to cardinal; in 1852 he became Cardinal-Priest of San Silvestro in Capite. As a member of the senate he was a zealous defender of the rights of the Church, and, in spite of the interdict of the government, he published the papal encyclical of December 8, 1864. He participated in the deliberations of Vatican Council I. He died July 9, 1875, in Besançon. Mathieu is the author of "Devoirs Du Sacerdoce ou Traité de la Dignité, de la Perfection, des Obligations... du Prêtre Catholique", and an "Office of the Mass and Vespers of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Latin and in French..." ( 1874 )

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 Profile, catholic-hierarchy.org; accessed 4 May 2020. 1796 births
1875 deaths
19th-century French cardinals
Cardinals created by Pope Pius IX
Seminary of Saint-Sulpice (France) alumni