Georges d'Aubusson de La Feuillade
Georges d'Aubusson de La Feuillade (1609 – May 12, 1697 Metz) was a 17th century Archbishop of Embrun[1] and bishop of Metz.[2]
Georges d'Aubusson de la Feuillade was born in 1609 the son of François Comte d'Aubusson and Elizabeth Brachet of Pérusse,[3] and was brother of François III Aubusson marshal duke of La Feuillade and uncle of Louis Aubusson, duke of La Feuillade, also marshal duke. He gained a degree in theology and on 21 Jun 1649 was appointed during the papacy of Pope Innocent X as Archbishop of Embrun.[4][5] On 12 Sep 1649, he was consecrated bishop by Louis-Henri de Pardaillon de Gondrin, Archbishop of Sens, with Louis-Doni d'Attichy, Bishop of Riez, and Félix Vialart de Herse, Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne, serving as co-consecrators.[6] He served as Archbishop of Embrun until 1668[4][5] when he was named abbot of Joyenval in Saint-Jean de Laon and the Abbey of Saint-Loup of Troyes.
In the 1651 assembly of the clergy he was a loud voice for taking action against the Protestants and he was ambassador to Spain from 1661 to 1664 and was the 91st bishop of Metz,[7] and from 1669 to 1697, was an adviser State of Church.[8]
In 1696 a report of his bishopric records that the Bishop had died and an audit found thousands of Francs missing. The report concludes that during the time the Bishop was senile at the end of his life, his nephew, the Duke of Feuillade plundered its coffers of more than 80 000 pounds.
Saint-Simon described the prelate as familiar, avaricious and easily jokingly of his own greed. He had become senile three or four years before his death.
Episcopal succession
While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:[6]
- Anne de Lévis-Ventadour, Archbishop of Bourges (1651);
- Louis de Bernage, Bishop of Grasse (1654);
- Antonio del Buffalo, Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo (1662)
- Benito de Rivas, Bishop of Puerto Rico (1664);
- Alfonso Vázquez de Toledo, Bishop of Cádiz (1664); and
- Alexander Fabri, Bishop of Orange (1668).
References
- ↑ Les Évèques et les Archevèques de France
- ↑ Georges d’Aubusson de La Feuillade sur Saarländische Biografien.
- ↑ Antoine Albert, Histoire géographique, naturelle, ecclésiastique et civile du diocèse d'Embrun (1783) p 250.
- 1 2 Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 4, Page 179.
- 1 2 Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1649, Number 16
- 1 2 "Archbishop Georges d’Aubusson de la Feuillade" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved September 5, 2016
- ↑ Archbishop Georges d’Aubusson de la Feuillade.
- ↑ Armand Jean, Les Évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801, Paris et Mamers, 1891, p. 408.
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