Francesco Maria Abbati

Francesco Maria Antonio degli Abbati ( French François-Marie d'Abbati ; born January 13, 1660 in Pesaro ; † April 22, 1735 ) was bishop of Carpentras from 1710 to 1735 .

Life

Francesco Maria Abbati, brother of Cardinal Fabio degli Abati Olivieri , came from a noble Italian family who were related to the Albani of Urbino . After graduating in law and earning a doctorate in civil and canon law, he pursued a spiritual career. He accompanied his patron, the Nuncio Sebastiano Antonio Tanara , as an auditor, first to Portugal , then to Vienna . As Tanara in December 1695 by Pope Innocent XII. was appointed cardinal priest , Abbati followed him to Rome .

On February 18, 1702 Abbati was by the with him related Clement XI. appointed rector of the southern French region Comtat Venaissin , which was under papal suzerainty, and received at the same time the Commendatarabbey of Sainte-Victoire. On May 20, 1702 he made his entry into Carpentras . He improved the relations with the bishop of Carpentras , Laurent Buti , which had been tense under his predecessor , ordered the ban on begging on February 18, 1703, regulated the public alms on July 3, 1703 and had the city hospital rebuilt April 1705 participated together with Bishop Buti.

Abbati was ordained a priest on October 3, 1706 and was appointed Bishop of Rieti on June 8, 1707 . Only three years later, on July 21, 1710, he was elected Bishop of Carpentras as the successor to the late Laurent Buti, but he did not return to Carpentras immediately and did not actually take up his office until June 6, 1711. In addition, he held interim from June 1711 to December 1712, from March to June 1716 and from November 1727 to December 1728 again the office of Rector of the Comtat Venaissin. He tried to be very charitable , especially during the plague of 1720, bought the Saint-Félix castle near Malemort , which he made the official seat of his diocese, and took care of the beautification of the Cathedral of St-Siffrein in Carpentras, in which he one Crypt was excavated as a burial place for the future bishops there. He himself also found his final resting place there after his death on April 22, 1735 at the age of 75.

Abbati is u. a. the author of a small (anonymously published) pamphlet with the title Réponse d'un canoniste français à la question qu'un canoniste ultramontain lui propose au sujet de la quarte canonique des évêques , which work he opposed in the wake of a trial that he had tried and lost composed the priors of Aurel and Sault.

literature

• A. Rastoul: Abbati (Francesco-Maria d ') In: Dictionnaire de Biographie française. Vol. 1 (1932), Col. 63f.

Web links

• Entry on François-Marie Abbati on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 2, 2016.