Francois Hallier

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Francois Hallier [1]

a French prelate, was born at Chartres in 1595. He was doctor and professor of the Sorbonne, and syndic of the theological faculty at Paris. While at Rome in 1652 he was the main instrument of having the five propositions of Jansenius condemned. In 1656 he was made bishop of Cavaillon, and died in 1659. He wrote, Defensio Ecclesiasticae Hierarchiae (Paris, 1632): Monita ad Ordinandos et Ordinatos (1634): De Sacris Electionibus et Ordinationibius ex Antiquo et Novo Ecclesiae Usu (1636, 3 volumes fol.). See Winer; Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:461; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)

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