Emmanuel-François de Bausset-Roquefort

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Emmanuel-François de Bausset-Roquefort (born December 24, 1731 in Marseille , † February 10, 1802 in Rijeka ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop of Fréjus .

life and work

Origin and family

Emmanuel-François de Bausset-Roquefort came from a Provencal noble family from Aubagne , from which four bishops emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries. Emmanuel-François' uncle Joseph-Bruno de Bausset-Roquefort (1702–1771) was Bishop of Béziers from 1745–1771 . His nephew Pierre-Ferdinand de Bausset-Roquefort (1757–1829) was Bishop of Vannes 1807–1817 and Archbishop of Aix from 1817–1829 . Louis-François de Bausset-Roquefort (1748–1824) was Bishop of Alès from 1784–1801 and cardinal from 1817.

Bishop of Fréjus

Beausset-Roquefort was ordained a priest and in 1757 Commendatarabb of the Cistercian Abbey of Flaran . After studying civil law and canon law, he was agent général du clergé de France (elected general administrator of the Church of France) from 1764 to 1765 and was appointed Bishop of Fréjus in 1766 at the age of 34 . He proved to be active, built a seminary in 1776 (building no longer exists) and tried to renovate the ancient port area of ​​the city.

Exile in Italy and death

Before the civil constitution of the clergy announced in August 1790 , the adoption of which his regional partners had suggested, he fled to Nice at the end of October , where, despite the appointment of a successor in April 1791, he still felt in office. In September 1792 he fled from the advancing revolutionary troops on foot over the Tenda Pass into Piedmont , where he stayed until May 1794. Then he went (in temporary random accompaniment of St. Eugene de Mazenod ) in the Papal States by Ferrara (to Archbishop Alessandro Mattei ). In 1796 he had to flee from there to Venice . There he wrote a will in which he accepted his fate as a just repentance for his sins and was pleased to share the sufferings of his Savior to some extent. He fled further to Dalmatia , resigned from his episcopate on August 15, 1801, in accordance with the Concordat of 1801 , and died in February 1802 in what was then Fiume (today: Rijeka) at the age of 70. He was buried in St. Vitus Cathedral. His nephew Pierre-Ferdinand had a plaque installed in his memory in the cathedral of Fréjus in 1821, which is still there.

Works

  • Procès-verbal de l'assemblée générale du clergé de France, tenue à Paris en mil sept cent soixante-cinq et continuée en mil sept cent soixante-six . 1773.
  • Catéchisme du diocèse de Fréjus . 1779.
  • Pseautier selon le breviaire de Fréjus . Paris 1782.
  • Graduel de Fréjus, pour les églises qui ne sont pas obligées à l'office canonial . Paris 1786.
  • Antiphonaire de Fréjus, pour les églises qui ne sont pas obligées à l'office canonial . Paris 1786.
  • Breviary Forojuliense . Paris 1787.

literature

  • L'Ami de la religion. Journal ecclésiastique, politique et littéraire 3, 1815, pp. 254-255.
  • Louis Porte: Histoire du diocèse de Fréjus-Toulon . Hyères 2017, pp. 88-89 and passim.

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personal data
SURNAME Building set-Roquefort, Emmanuel-François de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Building set, Emmanuel François de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Roman Catholic Bishop of Fréjus
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1802
Place of death Rijeka