François Faure (Bishop)

François Faure

François Faure (born November 8, 1612 in Sainte-Quitérie , † May 11, 1687 in Paris ) was a French bishop.

Life

Born in 1612 in the castle of Sainte-Quitérie in the diocese of Angoulême , François Faure was the son of the governor of Mirebeau , Jean Faure, and Gabrielle Martin. He entered the Franciscan order ( Cordeliers ), taught philosophy in the Angoulême monastery and eventually became a provincial. He received his doctorate in theology in Paris, where he became a preacher to the regent Anna of Austria and subpreceptor of the underage King Louis XIV in 1636. He held the preaching office until the death of the queen, to whom he also gave the funeral sermon.

Nominated by the King as Bishop of Glandèves on March 6, 1651 , he swore the oath of allegiance on August 24 and was consecrated on September 3 in the Franciscan Church in Paris by Bishop Harduin de Péréfixe of Rodez , to whom the Bishops Pierre Bédacier of Augusta and Henri de Laval assisted by Léon . The newly consecrated bishop never saw his diocese, because on March 7, 1653 the king transferred him to the bishopric of Amiens , which he took possession of on June 3, 1654 by procurationem (i.e. by a deputy). Faure took the oath the next day in Reims Cathedral and took part in the coronation and anointing of King Louis XIV on June 7th (as subdeacon of the Bishop of Soissons , Simon Légras ). On July 28th, he ceremoniously entered his cathedral in Amiens .

Bishop Faure led his diocese partly personally, partly he had it administered by his vicar general. Most of the time he stayed close to the king in his capacity as court preacher. He accompanied Ludwig to the wedding with Maria Teresa of Spain and preached several times during the trip. In 1656 he was also the confessor of Queen Christine of Sweden . The ecclesiastical policy of the king, who emphasized the freedom of the French Church in Rome (→ Gallicanism ), he did not support in all points. In the dispute over Jansenism , he was firmly on the side of the Jesuits , whose house chapel in Paris he consecrated in 1667. In 1685 a violent dispute arose in his diocese between the diocesan priests and the Jesuits over annual confession. Bishop Faure sided with the Jesuits in his pastoral letter of May 31, 1686. The pastors complained to the Metropolitan of Reims, Archbishop Letellier , who received the pastoral letter; Faure then turned to Pope Innocent XI. , but did not live to see the end of the process. He died of a stroke in Paris in 1687 . His heart was buried in the Franciscan Church in Paris, his body in the Cathedral of Amiens .

Works

• Oraison funèbre de la pure Anne d'Autriche. 1666
• Oraison funèbre de Henriette-Marie de France, pure de la Grande-Bretagne. 1670
• Ordonnance contre le Nouveau Testament de Mons. 1673
• Panégyrique de Louis XIV. 1680

literature

• Hoefer: Nouvelle biography générale. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1852–1866.
• Fisquet, H [onoré Jean Pierre]: La France pontificale. Paris: Repos, 1864–1871.
• Armand Jean: Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801. Picard et al., Paris et al. 1891.