André-Dominique-Jean-Baptiste de Castellane

André-Dominique-Jean-Baptiste de Castellane (* 1703 in Poitiers , † September 8, 1751 in Glandèves, today Entrevaux ) was Bishop of Glandèves in France from 1747 to 1751 .

Life

André-Jean-Baptiste de Castellane was the son of General Horace de Castellane and his wife Anne de Bonne. He was born in Poitiers in 1703 , where his father was stationed as a soldier. He studied at the Old Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris and received on December 19, 1723 by the Bishop of Bethlehem , Louis Lebel , the minor orders . On May 26, 1725 sub-deacon and the following year deacon , he was finally on 17 December 1729 for priests ordained. He then worked as a theologian at the Church of Aix-en-Provence and then became vicar generalin Auch , 1743 also provost of the cathedral. In 1738 he received from the king the Abbey of Saint-Léon in the diocese of Toul in Kommende .

Appointed Bishop of Glandèves on December 23, 1747 , he received episcopal ordination on May 31, 1748 . In 1750 the ecclesiastical province of Embrun sent him as a deputy to the general assembly of the French clergy. On September 8, 1751, a sudden death put an end to his promising work.

literature

• Honoré Fisquet : La France pontificale (" Gallia Christiana ") . Paris, Repos, 1864-1871.
• Armand Jean: Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801 . Paris [et al.], Picard [et al.], 1891.

Web links

• Entry on André-Jean-Baptiste-Dominique de Castellane on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved on August 18, 2016 (gives December 3, 1700 as the date of birth)