Charles-Marie de Quelen

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Charles-Marie de Quelen (* 1703 in Hanvec ; † April 21, 1777 in Le Faou ) was a French prelate .

Life

Charles-Marie de Quelen came from an old Breton family and was born as the son of Chevalier Urbain de Quelen-Kerohant and his wife Louise Thomé de Keridec on the Kerohan (t) family estate.

He struck the ecclesiastical career, Bachelor was the theology and licentiate of canon law . In 1733 he became pastor of Saint-Michel d'Ingouville, the Cathedral Church of Notre Dame and the Church of Saint-François in Le Havre . In February 1754 he received the Abbey of La Rivour in Champagne as a prebende . Presented by the Duke of Nevers as Bishop of Bethlehem, he was confirmed by the King in May 1754 and preconized by the Pope on September 16 in Rome . He received his episcopal ordination on January 19, 1755 in the chapel of the St. Sulpice seminary in Paris by Bishop Bertrand du Guesclin of Cahors . Consecration assistants were the bishops Gaspard-Alexis de Plan des Augiers of Die and François de Prunières de Saint-Jean of Grasse .

Bishop Quelen installed a vicar general and archdeacon in Clamecy in May 1796 and appointed a notary as his secretary in ecclesiastical affairs. He also ordained two deacons . With this act he had been raised by his predecessors jurisdiction claims revived, leading to disputes with the Bishop of Auxerre ( Jean-Baptiste de Cicé led) on the territory despite its exemption as a titular applicable diocese Bethlehem Clamecy was.

Hyacinthe-Louis de Quélen (1778–1839), Archbishop of Paris from 1821 to 1839, was his great-nephew.

literature

  • Honoré Jean Pierre Fisquet: La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana). Histoire chronologique et biographique des Archevêques & Évêques de tous les Diocèses de France, depuis l'établissement du Christianisme jusqu'à nos jours, divisée en 18 provinces ecclésiastiques. Repos, Paris 1864–1871.
  • Armand Jean: Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801. Picard, Paris 1891.
  • Louis Chevalier Lagenissière: Histoire de l'évêché de Bethléem. Dumoulin, Paris 1872
  • Jacques Youenn de Quelen: Généalogie de la maison de Quelen, 2004, p. 46

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personal data
SURNAME Quelen, Charles-Marie de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French prelate
DATE OF BIRTH 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanvec
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1777
Place of death Le Faou