Laurent Éon de Cély

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Laurent-Michel Eon de Cely (born in Bayeux 25 September 1735 and died in Marseille December 12, 1815), was the last bishop of Apt from 1778 to 1801.

Early life[]

Laurent-Michel Eon de Cely, son of Baron Michel Eon († 1780), and his wife Marie-Thérèse Dorothée de Faudoas, born in the parish of , Bayeux. Tonsured March 3, 1747, he was made in 1756 as lord commendatory prior of the Priory of La Valette-lès-Toulon which he resigned in 1786. He became vicar general of the Bishop of Autun .[1]

He was made bishop of Apt in 1778, and dedicated in January 1779 in Issy. In his diocese, he removes the seminar and introduced the . During the French Revolution, he fled to Italy on August 24, 1789, he arrived in Rome in October where he devoted himself to the study of antiquities. After signing the Concordat of 1801, he resigned his diocese to the Pope on 11 November 1801 and returned to France. He died on 16 December 1815 in Marseille.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Mémoires de la Société littéraire, scientifique et artistique d'Apt, Apt, 1874, volume 1, p. 152-153.
  2. ^ Armand Jean, Les évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'à 1801, Paris et Mamers, 1891, p. 22.
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