Ferdinand de Rye

Ferdinand de Longwy, dit de Rye (born October 1, 1550 at Balançon Castle in Thervay , † August 20, 1636 in Fraisans ) was Archbishop of Besançon for almost 50 years .

Life

Ferdinand de Rye is the son of Gérard de Rye, Seigneur de Balançon, Chamberlain and Second Sommelier of Emperor Charles V , and Louise de Longwy from the House of Chaussin . His uncles Louis de Rye and Philibert de Rye were consecutively bishops of Geneva from 1544 to 1566 .

After studying at the University of Dole and embarking on a military career, he studied theology in Rome. He stayed there until he was appointed Archbishop of Besançon on November 5, 1586 as the successor to Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle , and then did not leave his diocese. The appointment was made by Pope Sixtus V to the cathedral chapter , which had previously elected Antoine de Grammont, the high dean of the chapter. He was consecrated on August 16, 1587. In 1596 he was appointed Maître des requêtes at the Parlement in Dole.

He worked on a new edition of the Roman Missal and the Breviary as well as the Roman Ritual of the Diocese. In order to revive the religious life that was worsened by the coming and the abandonment of common life in many congregations , Ferdinand de Rye called new religious communities into the archdiocese. So four colleges and two Jesuit missions were founded, three colleges of the Oratorians , fourteen Capuchin monasteries , two of the Discalced Carmelites , two monasteries of Visitantinnen , three monasteries of Ursulines etc.

Under his episcopate, the Eucharistic Miracle of Faverney took place on May 26th and 27th, 1608, and he examined its accuracy. As soon as he learned of the events, he sent three investigators to Faverney , who arrived less than a week after the miracle, to take the first testimonies. On July 10, 1608, he declared the authenticity of the miracle.

In 1630, at the age of 80, he was appointed the new governor of the Free County of Burgundy after the death of Clériadus de Vergy . With Louis de La Verne and Jean Girardot de Nozeroy he was able to organize the defense of Dole during the unsuccessful siege of the city from May 28 to August 15, 1636. He died five days after the siege was lifted in nearby Fraisans on his way to his castle in Vuillafans at the age of 85. He was buried next to his mother in Vuillafans.

His nephew François de Rye succeeded him as Abbot of Cherlieu and Archbishop for a few months, and Jean-Baptiste de La Baume-Montrevel was the new governor of the Free County .

Before or in addition to his office as archbishop he had a number of other benefices:

• In 1580 he became prior of Saint-Marcel
• 1584 became the prior of Arbois
• He was high dean of the cathedral chapter of Besançon
• From 1589 to 1636 he was Abbot of Saint-Claude
• From 1599 to 1636 he was Abbot of Cherlieu

literature

• François-Ignace Dunod de Charnage, Histoire de l'église, ville et diocèse de Besançon , Besançon 1750, pp. 322–338
• Jean François Nicolas Richard, Histoire des diocèses de Besançon et de Saint-Claude , Volume 2, Besançon, Librairie ecclésiastique de Cornu, 1851