Léon Bacoué

Léon Bacoué OFM (* 1600 or 1608 in Casteljaloux , Dép. Lot-et-Garonne , † February 3, 1694 in Pamiers ) was Bishop of Glandèves from 1672 to 1684 .

Life

Léon Bacoué was the only convert who was elevated to episcopal dignity by Louis XIV . He was born in Casteljaloux in Aquitaine and raised a Protestant in 1600 or 1608, the information is not uniform . After his conversion, he entered the Franciscan order in Toulouse and was finally charged with reforming the Paris Convention of the Cordeliers . In 1667 he published a Latin poem in honor of Pope Clement IX. and in 1670 another on the education of the Crown Prince, Delphinus . Through the latter he attracted the attention of Louis XIV, who appointed him bishop of Glandéves in southern France on September 27, 1672 . He was ordained the following year.

Bishop Bacoué founded a seminary in his diocese, for the establishment of which he contributed 10,000 livres from his own fortune. In 1682 he took part in the National Council of the French Clergy, which passed the famous four articles that made the French Church partially independent from St. Chair declared (→ Gallicanism ). Because of his old age, Bacoué received François de Camps as coadjutor on April 2, 1682 , to whom he largely left the administration of the diocese, although he had not yet received his papal certificate of appointment. Bacoué resigned in 1684 and retired to the Franciscan monastery in Pamiers , where he died ten years later at an advanced age.

The Gallia Christiana states that Bacoué was appointed Bishop of Pamiers in 1684. But that is a mistake for his coadjutor François de Camps .

Works

• Somme de théologie de P. Henri de Villalobo. Paris 1635 (translation of the Summa de la theologia moral y canonica by Enrique de Villalobos )
• Sanctissimo ac beatissimo patris Clementi IX Carmen panegyricum. Toulouse 1667
• Delphinus, seu de prima Principis Institutione libri sex, Toulouse 1670, Paris 1685

literature

• Hoefer: Nouvelle biography générale. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1852–1866.
• 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.
• Andrieu, Jules: Bibliography générale de l'Agenais et des parties du Condomois et du Bazadais. Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1969. [Reprint of the Paris edition, 1886–1891]