François Charrière
Swiss bishop and theologian
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- Doctorate Theology University of Fribourg
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, François Charrière was the Roman Catholic bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg from 1945 to 1970. Biography François Charrière was born into a peasant family in the village of Cerniat on 1 September 1893. He studied at the Collège Saint-Michel in Fribourg and then under the Capuchins at the Collège de Stans, earning his baccalaureate in 1913. He spent the next four years at the major seminary of the diocese and was ordained a priest on 15 July 1917. His first pastoral assignment was at the parish of Notre Dame in Lausanne for three years. He then renewed his studies at the Angelicum, earning his doctorate in canon law in 1923 with a thesis titled "De interdicto". After a brief term of pastoral work in Lausanne, in April 1924 he became professor of moral theology and sociology at the major seminary there. He taught canon law from 1929 to 1938, teaching for several of those years at the University of Fribourg as well. Alongside his teaching duties, he led the diocesan retreat office and led charities directed especially at young women. He also promoted missions in Asia and Eastern Europe. In 1941 he assumed direction the local Catholic journal La Liberté. In 1944 he established a French-language version of the Catholic news service Katholische Internationale Presse Aktion .
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