{{Short description|Catholic cardinal and archaeologist}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Cardinal |image = Cardinal Pitra.jpg |caption = Pitra in 1871. |honorific_prefix = His Eminence |name = Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra |honorific_suffix = O.S.B. |title = Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals |church = Roman Catholic Church |appointed = 24 March 1884 |term_end = 9 February 1889 |predecessor = Camillo Di Pietro |successor = Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano |other_post = Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina (1884-89) |ordination = 13 December 1836 |ordained_by = Bénigne-Urbain-Jean-Marie du Trousset d'Héricourt |consecration = 1 June 1879 |consecrated_by = Pope Leo XIII |cardinal = 16 March 1863 |created_cardinal_by = Pope Pius IX |rank = Cardinal-Priest (1863–79)<br>Cardinal-Bishop (1879–89) |birth_name = Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra |birth_date = 1 August 1812 |birth_place = Champforgeuil, First French Empire |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1889|02|09|1812|08|01}} |death_place = San Callisto convent, Rome, Kingdom of Italy |parents = Laurent Pitra<br>Edme-Françoise Vaffier |coat_of_arms = 140px |previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Cardinal-Priest of San Tommaso in Parione (1863–67)|Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto (1867–79)|Librarian of the Vatican Apostolic Library (1869–75)|Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives (1869–79)|Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (1879–84)}} }}
'''Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra''', OSB ({{IPA|fr|ʒɑ̃ batist fʁɑ̃swa pitʁa}}; 1 August 1812 – 9 February 1889) was a French Catholic cardinal, archaeologist and theologian.
He was born in Champforgeuil. Joining the Benedictine Order, he entered the Abbey of Solesmes in 1842, and was collaborator of Abbe Migne in the latter's ''Patrologia latina'' and ''Patrologia Graeca''. He was created cardinal in 1863, and was given the titular church of San Callisto in 1867,<ref>[http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/cardinal/127.htm Cardinal Title S. Callisto] – GCatholic.org</ref> before being appointed librarian of the Vatican Library in 1869. He is especially noteworthy for his great archaeological discoveries, including the ''Inscription of Autun'', and is the author of numerous works on archaeological, theological, and historical subjects. <!--Unreferenced paragraph: Abbot Guéranger sent Pitra to England in the late 1840s to find out the facts about the church in England. Pitra received no help from the Catholics, but the Anglicans received him in a most friendly manner. They sent financial support to Guéranger, they helped him to collect manuscripts for Gallia Christiana and allowed Pitra free access to the Library of the Archbishop of Canterbury and to the archives in his Palace of Lambeth in London. -->
Pitra died in Rome.
== Works == * {{Cite book|title=Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata|volume=1|location=Paris|year=1876|language=la|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=14294715}} ** {{Cite book|title=Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata|volume=2|location=Paris|year=1884|language=la|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=14296247}} ** {{Cite book|title=Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata|volume=4|location=Paris|year=1883|language=la|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=14296896}} * {{cite book | author = Paulin Martin | author-link = Paulin Martin | author2 = Jean Baptiste François Pitra| url = https://www.bookdepository.com/Analecta-Sacra-Patrum-Antenicaenorum-Ex-Codicibus-Orientalibus-J-P-P-Martin/9781607249320 | title = Analecta Sacra Patrum Antenicaenorum ex Codicibus Orientalibus : Syriac and Armenian Fragments of Ante-Nicene Writings | oclc = 1110709933 | location = Piscataway, NJ | publisher = Gorgias Press | year = 2010 | isbn = 9781463224349 | series = Syriac Studies Library | edition = 2nd |language = la,en | via = [https://archive.today/20190831195700/https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Analecta+Sacra+Patrum+Antenicaenorum+ex+Codicibus+Orientalibus+:+Syriac+and+Armenian+Fragments+of+Ante-Nicene+Writings%22&ei=WNBqXeKFEcPCkwXa9ZzQDA&start=10&sa=N&ved=0ahUKEwjikdzM8a3kAhVD4aQKHdo6B8oQ8tMDCKkB&biw=1366&bih=657%23spf=1567281414633 archive.is]}}
<gallery> File:Pitra, Jean Baptiste – Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata, 1876 – BEIC 14294715.jpg|''Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata'', 1876 </gallery>
==See also== *List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
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==References== *{{Catholic|wstitle=Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra}}
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