Cosme Roger

Cosme Roger (* 1615 in Paris , † December 20, 1710 in Lombez ) was a French Feuillant and bishop .

Life

Roger came from a family that was closely linked to Prince Gaston d'Orléans (brother of Louis XIII ). His father Michel Roger was an advocate at the Parlement of Paris and at the end of the 1620s General Procurator of the Prince, his mother Isabelle Trouvé was the daughter of a Parisian family. He was baptized in Saint-Eustache around 1615 ; the exact date is not known.

At the beginning of 1630 he joined the Feuillanten order in Plessis-Piquet, made his profession in 1632 with the religious name Cosme de Saint-Michel in Saint-Bernard-de-Blérancourt and was ordained a priest on February 20, 1641 in Soissons . According to the ideals of the feuillants, he did not acquire a university diploma. He was a valued preacher in Paris for 30 years and became general of his order in 1666 and again in 1669. On January 5, 1671, the king was appointed bishop of the diocese of Lombez , was confirmed papally on December 14, 1671 and consecrated on January 30, 1672 by Archbishop François Harlay de Champvallon in the Church of the Feuillanten in Paris.

Even as a bishop, Roger remained true to the ascetic ideals of his order. He turned down the transfer to the bishopric of Pamiers in 1680; even after the honor of representing his church province at the Synod of Bishops in 1682, he did not strive. He died on December 20, 1710 at the old age of 95.

literature

• Jean, Armand: Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801. - Paris [et al.]: Picard [et al.], 1891
• Benoist Pierre: La bure et le scepter. La congrégation des Feuillants dans l'affirmation des Etats et des pouvoirs princiers (verse 1560 – verse 1660). Sorbonne, Paris 2006
• Joseph Bergin : Crown, Church, and Episcopate Under Louis XIV. Yale University Press, 2004

Web links

• Entry for Cosme Roger on catholic-hierarchy.org