His Eminence Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra O.S.B.
Vice-Dean of the College of Cardinals
Pitra in 1871.
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	24 March 1884
Term ended	9 February 1889
Predecessor	Camillo Di Pietro
Successor	Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano
Other post	Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina (1884-89)
Previous posts	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)
Orders
Ordination	13 December 1836 by Bénigne-Urbain-Jean-Marie du Trousset d'Héricourt
Consecration	1 June 1879 by Pope Leo XIII
Created cardinal	16 March 1863 byPope Pius IX
Rank	Cardinal-Priest (1863–79) Cardinal-Bishop (1879–89)
Personal details
Born	Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra 1 August 1812 Champforgeuil,First French Empire
Died	9 February 1889(1889-02-09) (aged 76) San Callisto convent,Rome,Kingdom of Italy
Parents	Laurent Pitra Edme-Françoise Vaffier
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Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra,OSB (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃batistfʁɑ̃swapitʁa]; 1 August 1812 – 9 February 1889) was a FrenchCatholiccardinal,archaeologist and theologian.

He was born inChampforgeuil. Joining theBenedictine Order, he entered theAbbey of Solesmes in 1842, and was collaborator ofAbbe Migne in the latter'sPatrologia latina andPatrologia Graeca. He was createdcardinal in 1863, and was given thetitular church ofSan Callisto in 1867,^[1] before being appointed librarian of theVatican Library in 1869. He is especially noteworthy for his great archaeological discoveries, including theInscription of Autun, and is the author of numerous works on archaeological, theological, and historical subjects.

Pitra died in Rome.

• Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata (in Latin). Vol. 1. Paris. 1876.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata (in Latin). Vol. 2. Paris. 1884.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata (in Latin). Vol. 4. Paris. 1883.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Paulin Martin; Jean Baptiste François Pitra (2010).Analecta Sacra Patrum Antenicaenorum ex Codicibus Orientalibus : Syriac and Armenian Fragments of Ante-Nicene Writings. Syriac Studies Library (in Latin and English) (2nd ed.). Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.ISBN 9781463224349.OCLC 1110709933 – viaarchive.is.{{cite book}}:External link in|via= (help)

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  Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata, 1876

• List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra".Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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