LOYSON, Charles, sharl lwa-zOil (known by his monastic name, PkitE HyncncritE), French ecclesiastic : b. Orleans, 10 March 1827; d. 1912. He studied in the College of Pau and the ecclesiastical college of Saint Sulpice, was or dained priest in 1850, taught philosophy at the Seminary of Avignon and theology at that of Nantes, entered the Carmelite order, and be came renowned as a preacher at Lyons. Bor deaux, Nantes and Paris. But his unorthodox utterances soon drew the censure of ecclesi astical authority, and his superiors prohibited him from preaching. He then left the Order, and refusing to remain silent he was excom municated. In 1869 he visited the United States, where he was heartily welcomed. In 1872 he married an American lady in London. He protested against the dogma of papal in fallibility, attended the Old Catholic Congress in Munich, fraternized with Protestants, but repeatedly declared that he had no intention of leaving the Catholic Church. In 1873 he be
came pastor of an Old Catholic church at Geneva, and the founder of the Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland. In 1878 he opened in Paris an independent church, the Eglise Gallicane, holding communion with the Old Catholic and Anglican churches. Pere Hyacinthe traveled extensively and during a visit to the Orient in 1900-01 with his wife was welcomed by patriarchs of the Eastern churches. From 1901 he ministered again to Old Catholic and Protestant churches in Swit zerland. Among his writings are
societe civile dans ses rapports avec le Christianisme) (1867); 'La Reforme Oitholique' (1872-73; extended, 1867);
de l'Eglise Catho lique-Gallicane) (4th ed., 1883); (Mon Testa ment) (1893) ;