Education
He studied humanities in Paris at Street-Nicolas du Chardonnet, under Félix Dupanloup. And theology at Street-Sulpice, where he was ordained, 1850.
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He studied humanities in Paris at Street-Nicolas du Chardonnet, under Félix Dupanloup. And theology at Street-Sulpice, where he was ordained, 1850.
After nine years as curate at Street-Roch, he became successively diocesan promoter 1859. Curé of Street-Ambroise, 1863. Then of Street-Augustin, 1868.
Vicar-General of Paris, and archdeacon of Notre-Dame in 1871.
Made Bishop of Tarbes in 1873, he was in the following year translated to the archiepiscopal See of Reims. The thirty-one years of his episcopate were fruitful ones.
When the law of school secularization came into effect, he filled his see with Catholic schools and founded four asylums for orphans. Created cardinal in 1886, he presided as papal legate over the Eucharistic Congresses of Jerusalem, Reims, and Lourdes.
He took an active part in the beatification of Joan of Arc.
He fought the anti-religious legislation that was being prepared against Christian education, the religious institutes, and the concordat. His "Déclaration des Cardinaux et exposé de la situation faite à l"Église de France" (1892), and his "Lettre au Président de la République" (1904), remain as witnesses to his character. The universal esteem in which he was held was abundantly proved by the many decorations which European rulers bestowed on him and by the vast concourse of bishops, priests, and people at his two jubilees and at his funeral.
His eulogy was pronounced by Gaspard-Marie-Michel-André Latty, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne, and Bishop Touchet, of Orléans.
Beside the pamphlets mentioned above and a number of occasional discourses, we have from Langénieux"s pen: eight pastoral letters (Tarbes, 1873). 231 mandements (Reims, 1874–1905).
And "Abregé de l"Histoire de la Religion" (Paris, 1874). He participated in the conclave of 1903, which elected Pope Pius X.