Claude-Louis de La Châtre (Bishop)

Claude-Louis de La Châtre (born September 28, 1698 in Paris , † May 22, 1740 in Agde ) was Bishop of Agde .

Life

Claude-Louis de La Châtre (older spelling: Chastre) was the second son of the Governor General of the Province of Orléanais , Louis de La Châtre (1661–1730), Count of Nançay, called Marquis de La Châtre, and Marie-Charlotte de Beaumanoir (1668 –1725), daughter of Henri III. de Beaumanoir, Marquis de Lavardin. He was baptized on the day he was born. Godparents were the father's brother, Claude de La Châtre († 1699), Commendatarabbot of Saint-Sever and court chaplain of the king, and his great-aunt Louise (1635–1723), lady-in-waiting to the queen and widow of Marshal Louis de Crévant, duc d ' Humières (parish register of St-Eustache de Paris ).

By decree of November 6, 1717, when he was barely twenty and before the tonsure , he received the Saint-Michel-du-Tréport Abbey in the Archdiocese of Rouen in Kommende . On June 4, 1719 he received the minor orders in Paris and on March 21, 1722 from the hand of the Bishop of Bethlehem, Louis Lebel OFM, the subdiaconate, the diaconate followed on December 19, 1722 and the priestly ordination by the Bishop of Angers, Michel Poncet de La Rivière , on December 23, 1722. The following year he became Vicar General of the Bishop of Tours, Louis-Jacques de Chapte de Rastignac , and titular of the Saint-Éloi Chapel of the Collegiate Monastery of Saint-Martin-de-Champeaux in the Archdiocese Paris . On January 4, 1726 he received his doctorate in theology from the University of Paris and on October 17, 1726, at the suggestion of Cardinal Fleury , by King Louis XV. appointed Bishop of Agde (ecclesiastical province of Narbonne).

Preconized in the consistory of December 16, 1726 , he received the certificate of appointment on January 20, 1727 and was consecrated bishop on October 26, 1727 in the inner chapel of the minimites (Paulaner) in Paris (Place Royal) by Archbishop Crillon of Toulouse. On November 30, 1727, he took the oath of allegiance to the king. On February 4, 1728 Mgr de La Châtre went with a large procession to the city of Agde , which greeted him with 68 cannon shots, and on February 6, solemnly entered his cathedral.

On March 14, 1728, he opened the festivities for the Holy Year 1728, which lasted two months. On July 18, 1733, assisted by Bishops Michel de Verthamon de Chavagnac of Montauban and Armand Bazin de Bezons of Carcassonne, he consecrated Bishop of Lodève in Saint-Etienne Cathedral in Agde Jean-Georges de Souillac . A novelty for the city of Agde was the great public participation in this ceremony. Appointed as a deputy for the clergy by the Landtag of the Languedoc Province, Mgr de La Châtre handed over to King Louis XV on August 24, 1733. the reports ( cahiers ) of the province. In 1735 he represented the ecclesiastical province of Narbonne as a member of the National Council of the French clergy in Paris.

Bishop de La Châtre died on May 22, 1740, only 41 years old. With his will of April 21, 1740 he founded the Hôpital d'Agde and made it a universal heir. He was buried in the cathedral.

literature

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