Tomás Ripoll

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Tomás Ripoll

Tomás Ripoll (1652–1747) was the Master of the Order of Preachers from 1725 to 1747.

Biography

Tomás Ripoll was a contemplative Dominican from Tarragona in the province of Aragon.[1] He was a socius of two of the masters of his order, Antonin Cloche in 1702 with the title "Provincial of the Holy Land",[2] and Agustín Pipia.[1]

In 1722 Ripoll was Provincial for the province of Aragon.[2]

A General Chapter of the Dominican Order elected him master in 1725.[1] As master, Ripoll made no visitations.[1] He oversaw completion of the historical documents of the Dominican Order.[1] The Jansenist controversy was brought to a head under his mastership.[1] In 1740, Ripoll's friend Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini was elected pope, taking the regnal name of Pope Benedict XIV.[1]

As Master General of the Order of Preachers, Tomás Ripoll was the dedicatee of the Historia de la Provincia de España de la Orden de Predicadores (Madrid, 1727), authored by the Dominican chronicler Manuel Joseph de Medrano. The work, which documents the development of the Order in Spain and the lives of its notable members, was formally offered to Ripoll in recognition of his authority as head of the Order and his role in overseeing its institutional and historical continuity.[3]

In the dedication, Manuel Joseph de Medrano praised Tomás Ripoll in the following terms:

"Virtue is the eloquent panegyric of nobility; Your Most Reverend Lordship contradicts, by the brilliance of your actions, the modesty with which you conceal them ... From your earliest years you gave clear proof of a rare union of observance and learning, such that even the most discerning could not determine which shone more in you."[3]

Ripoll died in 1747 on September at the age of 95.[1][2]

References

  1. Benedict M. Ashley, The Dominicans, ch. 7 Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Maestros de la Orden". www.dominicos.org (in Spanish). Archived from the original on February 10, 2009. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  3. Medrano, Manuel José de; González de Reyes, Antonio; Universidad Complutense (Alcalá de Henares) (1727). Historia de la provincia de España de la Orden de Predicadores: primera parte, progresos de sus fundaciones y vidas de los ilustres hijos que la ennoblecieron, desde la muerte de su glorioso Patriarcha, hasta el año de MCCC.: Tomo segundo, Desde el año de MCCXXI hasta el fin del siglo XIII. En Madrid: por los herederos de Antonio Gonçalez de Reyes.