DUBLANCHY, EDMOND. - Theologian, b. at Bruville (diocese of Metz) on 21 Jan. 1858, d. on 26 Jan. 1938 at Differt (Belgian Luxembourg). Having completed his ecclesiastical studies at Nancy, he entered, while still a deacon, the Society of Mary (Marist Fathers), where he made his religious profession and was ordained priest. For 4 years (1881-82 and 1884-87), he taught Sacred Scripture and dogmatic theology at Dublin; then philosophy and dogmatics to the scholastics of his society, at home and abroad (Spain and the United States).
At Washington he obtained his doctorate at the Catholic University (1895) and published his dissertation Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Bar-le-Duc 1895, pp. 442). Having returned to Europe, he taught theology at the seminary of Moulins (1897-1900), at Montbel (1900-1903), and at Differt (1903-10); in 1913 he was at the International Scholasticate in Rome, and in 1925 he returned to Differt to teach Sacred Scripture, history, and subsequently dogmatics and morals until 1935. He contributed to theological journals (e.g., Revue thomiste, 1918-19) and to the Dictionnaire de théologie catholique. He wrote La voix de Pierre pour l'indépendance du Pape (Paris 1926). Death prevented him from completing a book on the Blessed Virgin.