{{Short description|French cardinal}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Cardinal |image = Donnet, Ferdinand-François, cardinal, Gallica, Nadar.jpg |caption = Donnet circa 1880. |honorific_prefix = His Eminence |name = Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet |title = Archbishop of Bordeaux |church = Roman Catholic Church |archdiocese = Bordeaux |see = Bordeaux |appointed = 19 May 1837 |term_end = 23 December 1882 |predecessor = Jean-Louis Anne-Magdalen Lefebvre de Cheverus |successor = Aimé-Victor-François Guilbert |other_post = Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Via (1853–82) |ordination = 7 March 1819 |consecration = 31 May 1835 |consecrated_by = Charles Auguste Marie Joseph, Count of Forbin-Janson |cardinal = 15 March 1852 |created_cardinal_by = Pope Pius IX |rank = Cardinal-Priest |birth_name = Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet |birth_date = 16 November 1795 |birth_place = Bourg-Argental, French First Republic |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1882|12|23|1795|11|16}} |death_place = Bordeaux, French Third Republic |buried = Bordeaux Cathedral |parents = François Donnet<br>Madeleine Reynaud |previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Titular Bishop of Rhosus (1835–37)|Coadjutor Bishop of Nancy (1835–37)}} |motto = ''Ad fortiter finem suaviter Omnia'' |coat_of_arms =140px }}
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'''Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet''' ({{IPA|fr|fɛʁdinɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa oɡyst dɔnɛ}}; 16 November 1795 – 23 December 1882) was a French Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Bordeaux from 1837 until his death.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1852.htm#Donnet |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary: Pope Pius IX (1846-1878); Consistory of March 15, 1852 (V) |access-date=December 17, 2011 |archive-date=October 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171024092527/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1852.htm#Donnet |url-status=live }}</ref> He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1852.
==Life== His ecclesiastical province corresponded broadly with the Roman Aquitania Secunda (including Poitiers) but also included the French Antilles. Donnet argued forcefully for the canonisation of Christopher Columbus. Earlier he had been titular bishop of Rhosus<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/hierarchy/data/cardP09-1.htm#1027|title = Cardinals Created by Pius IX (1846-52)}}</ref> appointed to the diocese of Nancy and Toul. A major figure in Napoleon III's Liberal Empire period he was renowned for his energy, e.g. in publishing and in the restoration of churches in his diocese of Bordeaux (including Bazas though without that title).<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05132a.htm Ferdinand-François-Auguste Donnet] - Catholic Encyclopedia article</ref> Donnet was named cardinal by pope Pius IX in 1852 and participated in the conclave of 1878. Eleven volumes of his pastoral instructions, sermons and writings were posthumously published.
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