Jean-Marie Cuchot d'Herbain

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Jean-Marie Cuchot d'Herbain (born August 2, 1727 in Strasbourg , † October 31, 1801 in Fulda ) was titular bishop of Askalon and auxiliary bishop in Trier.

Life

Jean-Marie Cuchot d'Herbain, in German-language literature also Johann Maria Cuchot d'Herbain, came from Strasbourg, where his father was royal governor. He attended the Jesuit grammar school there and enrolled at the university in 1743 to study theology, which he completed with a doctorate in theology. On December 18, 1751, he was ordained a priest in Strasbourg. From 1751 to 1753 he was vicar of the Laurentius and Münster parishes in Strasbourg, from 1753 to 1755 canon in the Saverne monastery and from 1755 to 1772 canon at Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux in Strasbourg, 1767 scholaster . In 1755 he began studying law and was promoted to Dr. iur. utr. PhD. On April 5, 1757, he was appointed promoter of the diocese of Strasbourg, on November 7, 1771, assessor of the Office of Strasbourg and in 1772, owner of the St. Nikolaus-prebende in the cathedral's high choir.

Through Franz Heinrich Beck , with whom he exchanged his Strasbourg canonate for Beck's canonate to St. Paulin after his dismissal from the electoral court in 1783 , d'Herbain came to the Trier Curia, where a second auxiliary bishop was needed because incumbent Nikolaus von Hontheim was due to old age was no longer fit for duty. On May 12, 1777, Herbain was nominated as Hontheim's coadjutor, on January 15, 1778, Herbain was appointed titular bishop of Askalon and auxiliary bishop in Trier and was ordained bishop on May 31, 1778 in Liebfrauen in Koblenz from Archbishop Klemens Wenzeslaus .

As auxiliary bishop, d'Herbain was primarily responsible for the parts of the archbishopric that were “in French”. On November 11, 1779, he inaugurated the Clementinum in Trier, which he headed as Regens , and on April 18, 1782 he established the Vicariate General in Longwy . On May 6, 1791, he became Provikar (Vicar General) at the Consistory in Trier and was thus responsible for the entire diocese. On Maundy Thursday, 1792, he headed a pontifical office of the suffragan bishops against the un-church conditions.

Unfit for office after a stroke in 1792, he retired to Koblenz, from there to Fulda in 1794 before the advancing revolutionary troops. On July 24, 1794, he resigned his office and died on October 31, 1801 in Fulda. He was buried on November 1, 1801 in the parish church of St. Bonifatius and Blasius in Fulda. His epitaph is still there today. Johann Michael Josef von Pidoll was nominated as his coadjutor and successor as auxiliary bishop .

literature

• Wolfgang Seibrich : The auxiliary bishops of the Diocese of Trier , Trier 1998, pp. 150–157
• Franz-Josef Heyen : The St. Paulin Abbey in front of Trier, Germania Sacra , New Series 6, The Archdiocese of Trier Volume 1, 1972, p. 768 f.

Web links

• Entry on Jean-Marie Cuchot d'Herbain on catholic-hierarchy.org