Jean-Dominique Ithier

Jean-Dominique Ithier (* in Bordeaux ; † September 12, 1672 in Entrevaux ) was a French bishop .

Life

Born in Bordeaux , Jean-Dominique Ithier was Guardian of the Franciscan Convention in his hometown. During the Fronde he was involved in a conspiracy on the side of the Cardinal Minister Mazarin , which was directed against the Ormists in Bordeaux. It was here, according to the plan of his friar François Faure , who was in Paris, to collect information from the city and forward it to Paris and also to win over some leaders of the Ormists for the king's cause so that the city could be captured by the royal troops. Ithier was caught and sentenced to death by the Ormists; he escaped execution only because of his clerical status and was pardoned to life imprisonment.

After the successful siege of the city in 1653, Mazarin showed appreciation for the services rendered and appointed Ithier, who had been released from custody, Bishop of Glandèves . He received his consecration on June 21, 1654 in the Abbey Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés from the hand of his predecessor François Faure.

While Ithier's predecessors in the episcopal office had regularly resided in different places outside their episcopal city, Bishop Ithier wanted to put an end to nomadic life and began building a residence in La Sedz near Entrevaux . He died there on September 12, 1672. Unlike his predecessors, Bishop Ithier spent most of his eighteen-year episcopate in his diocese; at the major ecclesiastical events in Paris he showed little. In 1656 he held a diocesan synod, which elaborated in a series of statutes.

literature

• H [onoré Jean Pierre] Fisquet: La France pontificale. Repos, Paris 1864–1871.