Joseph-François de Cadenet de Charleval

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Joseph-François de Cadenet de Charleval (born March 6, 1710 in Aix-en-Provence , † January 22, 1759 in Agde ) was bishop of the collapsed diocese of Agde in southern France from 1740 to 1759 .

Life

Joseph-François de Cadenet-Charleval came from a Provencal family of officials. His father François de Cadenet, Lord of Charleval, Tamarlet and Aiguebelle, was a councilor at the Supreme Court ( Parlement ) of Provence in Aix; his mother Catherine de Gueidan was a daughter of the President of the Court of Auditors Pierre de Gueidan. Her brother Gaspard de Gueidan became president of the court in 1740 ( Président à Mortier ).

In 1734 Joseph-François became a spiritual councilor to the Parlement and Vicar General of the Archbishop of Aix, Jean-Baptiste de Brancas . In 1738 he received the Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Pessan in the Diocese of Auch in Kommende and was on June 12, 1740, as the successor of Bishop La Châtre , who died in May , of King Louis XV. appointed Bishop of Agde. In the first Konsistorum Pope Benedict XIV. Präkonisiert on 4 September 1740, he received his appointment on November 8 certificate and 22 (Jean) or 27 (Fisquet) November 1740 by Archbishop Branca in the Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence , the Episcopal ordination. On December 19, 1740, he took the oath of allegiance to the king in Paris.

In his diocese, Bishop Charleval diligently set out to eradicate the traces of Jansenism that had emerged under his predecessor . In the anniversary year of 1745 he publicly declared the submission of the diocese to the papal bull Unigenitus of 1713. In 1749 he brought the Christian school brothers to his diocese, who opened a school on January 1, 1750. In 1756 the bishop opened a silk factory in Agde.

Mgr Charleval died on January 22nd, 1759 and was buried in the choir of St. Etienne Cathedral, in the grave of his predecessor Feuquières .

literature

  • Berengier, Théophile: Notice on Mgr Joseph-François de Cadenet de Charleval, évêque et comte d'Agde (1710–1759), Marseille: SA de l'impr. Marseillaise, 1884
  • Fisquet H [onoré Jean Pierre]: La France pontificale (Gallia Christiana). Paris: Repos, 1864–1871.
  • Jean, Armand: Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801. Paris [et al.]: Picard [et al.], 1891
personal data
SURNAME Charleval, Joseph-François de Cadenet de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French bishop
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH Aix-en-Provence
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1759
Place of death Agde