Jean-Antoine-Auguste_de_Chastenet_de_Puységur

Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur

Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur

French Catholic bishop (d. 1815)

Jean Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur (11 November 1740 – 14 August 1815, Rabastens) was a French Catholic bishop.

Mons. Chastenet de Puységur, Bishop of Bourges, 1780 (Musée du Pays Rabastinois, Rabastens, Tarn)
Chastenet's grave in Church Notre-Dame-du-Bourg de Rabastens

He was named bishop of Saint-Omer on 29 June 1775, then bishop of Carcassonne in 1778. In 1788, he became the Archbishop of Bourges.[1] A deputy to Estates-General of 1789, on the French Revolution he emigrated to Wolfenbüttel, where he lived with the archbishop of Rheims, Talleyrand-Périgord. The 1801 Concordat between France and the Pope forced him to resign, but allowed him to return to Rabastens, where he then lived until his death.

References

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    "Archbishop Jean-Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2020-06-19.


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