André-Daniel de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire

André-Daniel de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire (born June 16, 1651 in Saint-Aulaire in the Limousin , † November 18, 1734 in Périgueux ) was a French bishop.

Life

André-Daniel de Beaupoil was the middle of the three sons of Daniel de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire and Guyonne de Chauvigny de Blot, his second wife since 1643, and the younger brother of the poet François-Joseph de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire (1648– 1742). Little is known about his education, only that he was a doctor of theology at Bourges University . He received the tonsure in Limoges in 1666 and was ordained a priest in 1682.

He then worked at the Saint-Sulpice seminary in Paris, but above all at the seminary in Limoges. In 1693 he received the Thoy Priory and then became Archpriest of La Porcherie . He was the superior of the seminary of that city and vicar general of the Bishop of Périgueux . At a baptism made on April 25, 1695 in Gorre , he signed as a " mission priest " ( prêtre missionnaire ).

Appointed Bishop of Tulle on April 18, 1702 , he was confirmed on September 25 and consecrated bishop on October 3 by the Archbishop of Rouen. It was solemnly introduced on January 14, 1703.

In 1706 he founded a branch of the Sisters of Mercy of Nevers, whose superior Marcelline Pauper died in Tulle in 1708 in the reputation of holiness. In 1714 he took part in the meeting of the clergy. On September 8, 1721 he resigned his bishopric and retired to the mission priests of Périgueux, where he died in 1734 and was buried

literature

• Joseph Bergin : Crown, Church, and Episcopate Under Louis XIV, Yale University Press, 2004, ISBN 0300103565 , pp. 377-378
• Armand Jean: Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801. Picard et al., Paris et al. 1891.
• Mazenc, Christian: Qui est Qui? : tout sur la Corrèze. Brive: Argo Brive Loisirs, 1983