Jean-Sifrein Maury [SEP] position held
Jean-Sifrein Maury
Jean-Sifrein Maury (26 June 1746 – 10 May 1817) was a French cardinal, archbishop of Paris, and former bishop of Montefiascone.
Biography.
The son of a cobbler, he was born on at Valréas in the Comtat-Venaissin, the enclave within France that belonged to the pope. He had three brothers.
His first steps in education took place at the school in Valréas, where he completed the course in humanities at the age of thirteen. He spent a
After several months of stalemate, Jean-Sifrein Maury proposed Chiaramonti as a compromise candidate. On 14 March 1800, Chiaramonti was elected pope, certainly not the choice of die-hard opponents of the French Revolution, and took as his pontifical name Pius VII in honour of his immediate predecessor. He was crowned on 21 March in a rather unusual ceremony, wearing a papier-mâché papal tiara as the French had seized the tiaras held by the Holy See when occupying Rome and forcing Pius VI into exile. He then left