Cardinal de Soubise explained

Type:cardinal
Honorific Prefix:His Eminence
Cardinal, Bishop of Strasbourg
Church:Roman Catholic Church
Term:1749–1756
Predecessor:Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan
Successor:Louis Constantin de Rohan
Ordination:23 December 1741
Consecration:4 November 1742
Consecrated By:Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan
Cardinal:10 April 1747
Rank:Cardinal-Priest
Created Cardinal By:Pope Benedict XIV
Birth Date:1 December 1717
Birth Place:Paris, France
Death Date:28 June 1756 (aged 38)
Death Place:Saverne, France
Previous Post:Grand Almoner of France (1745–1748)
Coadjutor Bishop of Strasbourg (1742–1749)
Titular Bishop of Ptolemais in Thebaide (1742–1749)

François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan-Soubise, Prince of Tournon, Prince of Rohan (1 December 1717, Paris – 28 June 1756, Saverne) was a French prelate, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg. His parents, Anne Julie de Melun and Jules, Prince de Soubise, both died of smallpox when he was still a child.

Biography

He received Holy Orders as a Catholic priest on 23 December 1741[1] and received the position of commendatory abbot first of the Abbey of Ventadour, which was succeeded by that of Saint-Epvre (in the Diocese of Toul) from 1736, and later added was that of Prince-Abbot of the Abbeys of Murbach and of Lure in 1737. He was elected to the Académie française on 15 July 1741.

A year later he was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Strasbourg. He was the great-nephew of the incumbent Prince-Bishop, Cardinal Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan, and was simultaneously named as the titular bishop in partibus of Ptolemais in Palestine (now Acre, Israel). He was consecrated a bishop on the following 4 November. He was made Grand Almoner of France in 1745 and a cardinal in 1747.

Upon the death of his great-uncle in 1749, he automatically became Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg and became commendatory abbot of the great Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu that same year, giving up that of Saint-Epvre.

He died in 1756 of tuberculosis.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/brohans.html Catholic Hierarchy