Claude d'Apchon

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Claude d'Apchon

Claude d'Apchon (* 1721 in Montbrison ; † May 21, 1783 in Paris ) was a French bishop .

Life

Claude Marc-Antoine de Saint-Germain d'Apchon de Corgenon was born in 1721 in Montbrison in the Loire department as a scion of a family of the military nobility. He attended the Jesuit college in Lyon and entered the Society of Jesus as a novice , but then initially embarked on a military career. He was ordained a priest in 1747 , became vicar general of Bishop Claude Bouhier of Dijon and dean of the Chapelle-aux-Riches. Appointed Bishop of Dijon in 1755, he was ordained by Cardinal Rochefoucauld in the Church of the Grands-Augustins in Paris on October 19 - together with Bishop Tressemanes of Glandèves .

Bishop d'Apchon supported the Jesuits as best he could in 1762 and appeased a famine-induced uprising in 1774. Promoted to Archbishop of Auch in 1776 , he moved there and continued the work of his predecessor. When Gascony was ravaged by an animal disease, he personally campaigned for the needy population. At the risk of his own life, he is said to have saved two children from a burning house.

On December 17, 1763, he was appointed Commendatary Abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Preuilly and retained this benefit until his death.

He died in Paris in 1783, where he had gone for medical treatment.

literature

  • Ferdinand Höfer (ed.): Nouvelle biography générale, vol. 1: Aa – Aragona . Roskilde & Bagger, Copenhagen 1963 (unchanged reprint of the Paris 1852 edition)
  • Armand Jean: Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801 . Picard [et al.], Paris [et al.] 1891.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annuario Pontificio , Rome 1764, p. 174
predecessor Office successor
Claude Bouhier Bishop of Dijon
1755–1776 		Jacques-Joseph-François de Vogüé
Jean-François de Montilleit Archbishop of Auch
1776–1783 		Louis-Apolinaire de La Tour du Pin-Montauban
personal data
SURNAME Apchon, Claude d '
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Apchon de Corgenon, Claude-Marc-Antoine d '; Saint-Germain d'Apchon de Corgenon, Claude Marc-Antoine de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French bishop
DATE OF BIRTH 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Montbrison
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1783
Place of death Paris