PIERRE DE LANGOGNE, SABADEL. – Titular archbishop of Corinth, Capuchin of the Lyon province, b. at Langogne (Lozère) 14 Nov. 1850, d. at Rome 4 May 1914.
After entering the Order, he successively served as secretary of the general procuracy (1880–96), consultor to various Roman congregations and member of the Commission for the Codification of Canon Law; Pius X created him archbishop in 1911. He wrote the treatise *L’ouverture de conscience, les Confessions et les Communions dans les communautés* (Paris 1891, frequently reprinted; Italian trans. Naples 1892). In *De bullā Innocentianā seu de potestate Papae committendi simplici presbytero subdiaconatus et diaconatus collationem* (Rome 1902) he examines historically and juridically the question of the powers that the Pope may exceptionally grant to a simple priest. Following the cessation of the review *Analecta iuris pontificii* (v.), he arranged for its continuation under the title *Analecta ecclesiastica* (v.), to which he contributed distinguished studies, as well as to other French periodicals in Rome. A member of the Pontifical Academy of the Immaculate Conception, he compiled a work of ascetical and maritime poetry, *Le diurnal de Marie. Énologies quotidiennes* (2 vols., Tournai 1889). To facilitate consultation of the *Bullarium Ord. Min. Capuccinorum* he ordered and annotated the *Regestum sive summarium chronologicum* (Rome 1892). A staunch defender of the Church, he was an intransigent opponent of the government of the French Third Republic and in the struggle against Modernism he adhered to the rigorist party.