François-Louis de Clermont-Tonnerre

François-Louis de Clermont-Tonnerre

François-Louis de Clermont-Tonnerre (* around 1660 ; † March 12, 1724 in Langres ) was Bishop of Langres (1696-1724).

Life

François-Louis de Clermont-Tonnerre was a son of Count Jacques von Clermont-Tonnerre and the Virginie Bonne de Fléard. As a younger son he embarked on a spiritual career and became vicar general of his uncle François de Clermont-Tonnerre , Bishop of Noyons. He was also court chaplain of the king and commander abbot of Thenailles, Bonne-Combe and Fontaine-Bèze.

Appointed Bishop of Langres on December 25, 1695, he received episcopal ordination on October 14, 1696 from his uncle, Bishop and Count of Noyons, in the chapel of the Jesuit novitiate in Paris. He thus also bore the title of Duke of Langres and was one of the spiritual pairs of France .

Bishop Clermont-Tonnerre advocated strict quietism . As a friend of the Jesuits and a declared opponent of Jansenism , he took part in the important church meetings of 1700 and 1713 and in 1714 published the papal bull Unigenitus in his diocese , which condemned Jansenism.

In 1701 he gave the funeral sermon for Duke Philip of Orléans , the brother of Louis XIV, in the Saint-Denis Cathedral . He had the country residence of the bishops of Langres, Mussy Castle, expanded.

literature

• Hoefer: Nouvelle biography générale. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1852–1866.
• Jean, Armand: Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801. Paris [et al.]: Picard [et al.], 1891.