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Diocese of Saint-Claude

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Diocese of Saint-Claude
Dioecesis Sancti Claudii
Diocèse de Saint-Claude
Saint-Claude Cathedral
Saint-Claude Cathedral
Location
Country France
Ecclesiastical province Besançon
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Besançon
Statistics
Area 4,499 km2 (1,737 sq mi)
Population
Total
Catholics 		(as of 2022)
258,000
185,000 (71.7%)
Parishes 65 'new parishes'
Information
Denomination Catholic Church
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 22 January 1742
Cathedral Cathedral of Sts. Peter, Paul and Andrew
Patron saint St. Claudius of Besançon
Secular priests 56 (diocesan)
12 (Religious Orders)
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Bishop Jean-Luc Gérard Garin
Metropolitan Archbishop Jean-Luc Bouilleret
Website
www.eglisejura.com

The Diocese of Saint-Claude (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Claudii; French: Diocèse de Saint-Claude) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese corresponds in territory to the civil department of Jura. The city is 62 km (39 mi) north-northwest of Geneva, and 120 km (75 mi) south of Besançon. It was established in 1742.

The Diocese of Saint-Claude is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Besançon, and formerly a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lyon. Its cathedra is Saint-Claude Cathedral, in the episcopal see of Saint-Claude, Jura.

History

The monks of the royal abbey of Saint-Claude had long since abandoned their strict Benedictine Rule. They had established a rule of their own, that each candidate needed to prove sixteen quarterings of nobility before being allowed to enter. They no longer lived in simple unadorned cells, but instead each had a luxurious apartment, provided with all the amenities. They were free to come and go as they wished.

On 12 September 1699, the abbey's abbot commendatory, Cardinal César d'Estrées, who was on his way to Rome, made his one and only visit. A year earlier, he had been ordered by Pope Innocent XII to carry out an apostolic visitation of the abbey to carry out a program of reform. Dissidents in the abbey's Chapter disputed the right of the legate to change the rules of their order and statutes adopted by them of long standing character. They claimed that since the abbey was directly dependent canonically on the pope, that only the pope could change their laws.[1] Cardinal d'Estrées spent 16 days assessing the state of the abbey and its occupants, and on 28 September issued 13 provisional regulations.[2]

When he arrived in Rome, d'Estrées continued working on the problems of Saint-Claude, consulted with cardinals in the Roman Curia, and, on 20 September 1700, issued an additional set of statutes, in five chapters with 127 articles.[3] The members of the Chapter were to be 24 in number, which was never to be diminished.[4] The cardinal's statutes were approved by King Louis XIV in letters patent in May 1701, and registered by the Parlement of Besançon on 13 July 1701. On 25 July, the Grand Prior Jacques-François d'Angeville, who had been appointed by Cardinal d'Estrées in 1700, summoned a meeting of the Chapter, and formally published the new statutes; four of the other officers of the Chapter announced that they accepted the statutes, though all the rest refused to accept them.[5]

On 28 July 1701, the opponents of reform formally requested the Parlemenbt of Besançon to allow them to appeal against the statutes, alleging that they contained 21 abuses. Cardinal d'Estrées appealed to the Sorbonne, in what he termed a matter of conscience, and obtained a judgment stating that, in issuing his statutes there was no defect in person: he had the authorization of the Papacy, letters patent from the king, and the force of canon law. They ruled that no law had been imposed on the monks which was not in accordance with their religious vows.[6]

Martène and Durand

In 1709, the two Benedictine scholars, Edmond Martène and Ursin Durand, were on an expedition to collect unpublished documents and manuscripts from monastic libraries. They visited several monasteries in the Jura before finally coming to Saint-Claude in November.[7] They published a succinct account of their observations on the conditions at the abbey.[8] "But this place which formerly used to be a school of sanctity, has today become, like Beaume and Gigny, a depository for noble families, who cannot place their offspring there without having previously demonstrated sixteen lines of nobility. The religious who live there bear the name and the habit of monks, but they live practically like canons, each one in separate apartments so magnificent that one can scarcely find similar ones among the laity. They all wear pectoral crosses like bishops.... Some of them, nonetheless, four or five in number, a bit more zealous than the others, eat in common and live in one apartment. We stayed with them."[9] Eight years after their promulgation, the statutes were not being obeyed by the majority of monks.

Tentative steps

In 1714, King Louis XIV, who was interested in solving the problems of the abbey of Saint-Claude, finally consented to the proposal of secularizing the Chapter, but, bypassing the proposal that the abbey be turned into a collegiate church, he proposed that it be made a diocese.[10] One obstacle to the plan was removed by the death of Cardinal César d'Estrées, the former abbot commendatory of Saint-Claude, on 14 December 1714. King Louis himself died on 1 September 1715. In 1701, however, Cardinal d'Estrées had passed on the abbatial office to his nephew, Jean d'Estrées, who died on 3 March 1718. Louis de Bourbon-Condé was named abbot commendatory in May 1718.[11]

Establishment

The diocese was created by a bull of Pope Benedict XIV on 22 January 1742.[12] It was composed of the twenty-six parishes which already belonged to the abbey of Saint-Cloud, to which were added several parishes from the diocese of Besançcon, and from the diocese of Lyon.[13] The diocese of Saint-Claude was assigned as a suffragan (subordinate) of the archbishop of Lyon.[14]

In accordance with the Concordat of Bologna (1516), King Louis XV nominated Bishop Jean Bouhier of Dijon to be the first bishop of Saint-Claude. The bishop declined. On 20 August 1741, King Louis then nominated the 32-year-old Jean-Baptiste-Joseph de Méallet de Fargues, who was a Canon-Count of the cathedral of Lyon.[15]

Chapter and cathedral

The new cathedral was to be staffed and administered by a corporation called the Chapter, which was to consist of 4 dignities and 20 canons. The dignities were to be: the Dean, who was to be named by the pope; the first archdeacon, who was to be named by the bishop; the second archdeacon, who was to be named by the bishop; and the cantor, who was to be named jointly by the bishop and the Chapter. A candidate had to be a canon who possessed either a licenciate in theology or a licenciate in canon law, at least a subdeacon, and capable of being ordained a priest within a year. If there were no eligible candidates, the dignity could be conferred on a person outside the Chapter. The rule was still in effect from the days of the monastery that a candidate for a canonry had to demonstrate sixteen quarterings of nobility.[16]

A diocesan synod was held by Bishop Joseph de Méallet de Fargues (1742–1785) on 1 August 1759, and the statutes were published.[17] In September 1901, Bishop François-Alexandre Maillet presided over a diocesan synod, and had the statutes published.[18]

French Revolution

Even before it directed its attention to the Church directly, the National Constituent Assembly attacked the institution of monasticism. On 13 February 1790. it issued a decree which stated that the government would no longer recognize solemn religious vows taken by either men or women. In consequence, Orders and Congregations which lived under a Rule were suppressed in France. Members of either sex were free to leave their monasteries or convents if they wished, and could claim an appropriate pension by applying to the local municipal authority.[19]

The National Constituent Assembly ordered the replacement of political subdivisions of the ancien régime with subdivisions called "departments", to be characterized by a single administrative city in the center of a compact area. The decree was passed on 22 December 1789, the boundaries fixed on 26 February 1790, with the institution to be effective on 4 March 1790.[20] A new department was created called "Jura," and Saint-Claude was one of the districts assigned to that department.[21] The National Constituent Assembly then, on 6 February 1790, instructed its ecclesiastical committee to prepare a plan for the reorganization of the clergy. At the end of May, its work was presented as a draft Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which, after vigorous debate, was approved on 12 July 1790. There was to be one diocese in each department,[22] requiring the suppression of approximately fifty dioceses.[23] The diocese of Saint-Claude became the diocese of Jura, with its seat at Saint-Claude,[24] and was assigned to the "Metropole de l'Est", with its metropolitan seated in Besançon.[25]

In the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, the National Constituent Assembly also abolished cathedral chapters, canonicates, prebends, chapters and dignities of collegiate churches, chapters of both secular and regular clergy of both sexes, and abbeys and priories whether existing under a Rule or in commendam.[26] The bishops and priests elected by the departmental electors became salaried employees of the state.

Bishop Jean-Baptiste Chabot (1785–1801) refused to take the obligatory oath to the Civil Constitution, and therefore his position was declared vacant by the French government. When the elected constitutional bishop, François-Xavier Moïse, arrived in 1791, Bishop Chabot was forced to flee; he emigrated to Lugano, and when Pope Pius VII called for the resignation of all the bishops in France, he dutifully handed in his resignation. On 9 April 1802, he was appointed bishop of Mende.[27]

Constitutional Bishop Moïse held a synod of his constitutional clergy at Salins on 5–6 August 1800.[28]

Restoration

The French Directory fell in the coup engineered by Talleyrand and Napoleon on 10 November 1799. The coup resulted in the establishment of the French Consulate, with Napoleon as the First Consul. To advance his aggressive military foreign policy, he decided to make peace with the Catholic Church and the Papacy.[29] On 29 November 1801, in the concordat of 1801 between the French Consulate, headed by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, and Pope Pius VII, the bishopric of Saint-Claude (Jura) and all the other dioceses in France were suppressed. This removed all the institutional contaminations and novelties introduced by the Constitutional Church.[30] The diocesan structure was then re-established, though the diocese of Saint-Claude was not revived.[31]

In 1814, the French monarchy was restored, and on 24 May 1814, the pope returned to Rome from exile in Savona.[32] Work began immediately on a new concordat, to regularize the relations between the two parties. In implementation of the concordat of 27 July 1817, between King Louis XVIII and Pope Pius VII, the diocese of Saint-Claude should have been restored by the bull "Commissa divinitus",[33] but the French Parliament refused to ratify the agreement. It was not until 6 October 1822 that a revised version of the papal bull, now called "Paternae Charitatis",[34] fortified by an ordonnance of Louis XVIII of 13 January 1823, received the acceptance of all parties. The diocese of Saint-Claude became a suffragan of the archdiocese of Besancon.[35]

Bishops

Constitutional bishop of Jura (schismatic) 1791–1801: François-Xavier Moïse, constitutional bishop[38]

See also

Canonical status and jurisdiction

Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Claude is a diocese of the catholic church of the Catholic Church.[48]

From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

Diocese of Saint-Claude — (SANCTI CLAUDII).

The Diocese of Saint-Claude comprised in the eighteenth century only twenty-six parishes, subject previously to the Abbey of Saint-Claude, and some parishes detached from the Dioceses of Besançon and Lyons. By the Concordat of 1802, the territory of this diocese was included in that of Besançon. Later the Concordat of 1817 re-erected the Diocese of Saint-Claude giving it as territory the Department of Jura, and making it suffragan to Lyons. The Abbey of Saint-Claude, the cradle of the diocese, was one of the most distinguished in the Christian world. Between 425 and 430 the hermits of Saint Romanus and Saint Lupic withdrew into the desert Condat, where Saint-Claude now stands, and there founded the monastery of Condat: other monks were; attracted to them, the land was cleared, and three new monasteries were founded: those of Lauconne, on the site of the present village of Saint Lupicin; La Balme, where Yole, the sister of Sts. Romanus and Lupicinus, assembled her nuns; and Romainmoutier, in the present Canton of Vaud. After the death of St. Romeanus (d. about 460), St. Lupicinus (d. about 480), St. Mimausus, St. Oyent (d. about 510), St Antidiolus, St. Olympus, St. Sapiens, St. Thalasius, St. Dagamond, St. Auderic, and St. Injuriosus were abbots of Condat, which was distinguished also by the virtues of the holy monks, St=2E Sabinian, St. Palladius, and St. Valentine (fifth century), St. Justus, St. Hymetierus, and St. Point (sixth century). The rule which was followed at the beginning in the monastery of Condat was drawn up between 510 and 515 and adopted by the great monastery of Agaune; later the rule of St. Benedict was introduced at Condat. Flourishing schools arose at once around Condat and from them came St. Romanus, Archbishop of Reims, and St. Viventiolus, Archbishop of Lyons. In the early years of the sixth century the peasants who gathered around the monastery of Condat created the town which was to be known later by the name of Saint-Claude.

The Life of St. Claudius, Abbot of Condat, has been the subject of much controversy. Dom Benott says that he lived in the seventh century; that he had been Bishop of Besançon before being abbot, that he was fifty-five years an abbot, and died in 694. He left Condat in a very flourishing state to his successors, among whom were a certain number of saints: St. Rusticus, St. Aufredus, St. Hipplytus (d. after 776), St Vulfredus, St. Bertrand, St. Ribert, all belonging to the eighth century. Carloman, uncle of Charlemagne, went to Condat to become a religious; St Martin, a monk of Condat was martyred by the Saracens probably in the time of Charlemagne. this Emperor was a benefactor of the Abbey of Condat; but the two diplomas of Charlemagne, formerly in possession of the monks of Saint-Claude, and now preserved in the Jura archives, dealing with the temporal interests of the abbey, have been found by M. Poupardin to be forgeries, fabricated without doubt in the eleventh century. A monk of Condat, Venerable Manon, after having enriched the abbey library with precious manuscripts was, about 874, appointed by Charles the Bald, head of the Palace school where he had among his pupils, St. Radbod, Bishop of Utrecht. Two abbots of Condat, St. Remy (d. 875) and St. Aurelian (d. 895), filled the archiepiscopal See of Lyons. In the eleventh century the renown of Abbey of Condat was increased by St. Stephen of Beze (d. 1116) by St. Simon of Crepy (b. about 1048), a descendant of Charlemagne; this saint was brought up by Mathilda, wife of William the Conqueror, was made Count of Valois and Vexin, fought against Philip I, King of France, and then became a monk of Condat. He afterwards founded the monastery of Monthe, went to the court of William the Conqueror to bring about reconciliation with his son, Robert, and died in 1080.

The body of St. Claudius, which had been concealed at the time of the Saracen invasions, was discovered in 1160, visited in 1172 by St. Peter of Tarentaise, and solemnly carried all through Burgundy before being brought back to Condat. The abbey and the town, theretofore known as Oyent, were thenceforeward called by the name of Saint-Claude. Among those who made a pilgrimage to Saint-Claude were Philip the bold, Duke of burgundy, in 1369, 1376, and 1382, Philip the Good in 1422, 1442, and 1443, Charles the Rash in 1461, Louis XI in 1456 and 1482, blessed Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy, in 1471. In 1500 Anne of Brittany, wife of Louis XII, went there in thanksgiving for the birth of her daughter Claudia. The territory of Saint-Claude forme a veritable state; it was a member of the Holy Empire, but it was not a fief, and was independent of the Countship of Burgundy. In 1291, Rudolph of Hapsburg named the dauphin, Humbert de Viennois, his vicar, and entrusted him with the defense of the monastery of Saint-Claude. In the course of time, the Abbey of Saint-Claude became a kind of Chapter, to enter which it was necessary to give proof of four degrees of nobility The system of "commendam" proved injurious to the religious life of the abbey. Among the commendatory abbots of Saint-Claude were Pierre de la Baume (1510-44) during whose administration Geneva fell away from the faith; Don Juan of Austria, natural son of Philip IV (1645-79), and Cardinal d'Estrées (1681-1714). The Abbey of Saint-Claude and the lands depending on it became French territory in 1674, on the conquest of La Franche-Comté. At that the inhabitants of La Franche-Comté took him as their second regional patron, and associated him everywhere with St. Andrew, the first patron of the Burgundians. Benedict XIII prepared and Benedict XIV published a Bull on 22 January, 1742, decreeing the secularization of the abbey and the erection of the episcopal See of Saint-Claude. The bishop, who bore the title of count, inherited all the seignorial rights of the abbot. Moreover the bishop and the canons continued to hold the dependents of the old abbey as subject to the mortmain, which meant that these men were incapable of disposing of their property. The lawyer, Christian, in 1770, waged a very vigorous campaign in favour of six communes that protested against the mortmain, and disputed the claims of the canons of Saint-Claude to the property rights of their lands. Voltaire intervened to help the communes. The Parliament of Besançon, in 1775, confirmed the rights of the Chapter; but the agitation excited by the philosophers apropos of those subject to the mortmain of Saint-Claude, was one of the signs of the approaching French Revolution. In March, 1794, the body of St. Claudius was burnt by order of the revolutionary authorities.

Dole, where Frederick Barbarossa constructed in the twelfth century an immense castle in which he sojourned from time to time, but which has now disappeared, and where Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, established in 1422 a parliament and a university — transferred in 1691 to Besançon by Louis XIV — deserves mention in religious history. The Jesuits opened at Dole, in the sixteenth century, a celebrated establishment known as the Collège de l'Arc, the most important in France after the Collège de la Flèche. Anne de Sainctonge (1567-1621) founded there an important branch of the Ursulines, which left its mark in the history of primary education in France. The celebrated chemist, Pasteur (1822-95), was a native of Dole. Among the saints connected with the history of the diocese are: St. Anatolius, Bishop of Adana, in Cilicia, who died a hermit near Salins in the diocese (fifth century); St. Lautenus (477-547), founder of the monastery bearing his name; St. Bernond, who established the Benedictine abbey of Gigny and rebuilt in 926 the Benedictine abbey of Baume-les-Moines (ninth-tenth century); St. Colette of Corbie (1381-1447) (q.v.), foundress of the Poor Clare convent at Poligny in which town her relics are preserved; her friend Blessed Louise of Savoy (1462-1503), niece of Louis XI, King of France, and daughter of Blessed Amadeus IX of Savoy, wife of Hugue de Chalon, Lord of Nozeroy, then a Poor Clare in the monastery of Orbe founded by St. Colette; her relics were transferred to Nozeroy, and afterwards to Turin; Blessed John of Ghent, surnamed the hermit of Saint-Claude, celebrated in the fifteenth century for his prophecies in 1421 and 1422 to Charles VII and Henry V, King of England, relative to the deliverance of France and the birth of a dauphin; St. Francis de Sales; Ste Jane de Chantal, whose important interview at Saint-Claude in 1604 determined the foundation of the Visitation order; Venerable Frances Monet, in religion Françoise de Saint-Joseph (1589-1669); Carmelite nun at Avignon and miracle worker, born at Bonas in the diocese; Blessed Pierre François Néron, martyr, a native of the diocese (nineteenth century).

The principal pilgrimages in the Diocese of Saint-Claude are: the Church of St-Pierre at Baume-les-Moines, where numerous relics are preserved; Notre-Dame-de-Mont-Roland, end of the eleventh century; Notre-Dame-Miraculeuse, at Bletterans, 1490; Notre-Dame-de-la-Balme at Epy, sixteenth century; Notre-Dame-Libératrice, at Salins, 1639; Notre-Dame-de-Mièges, 1699; Notre-Dame-de-l'Ermitage, at Arbois, seventeenth century; Notre-Dame-du-Chêne, at Cousance, 1774. Before the application of the Law of 1901 against the congregations there were in the Diocese of Saint-Claude, Jesuits, and various teaching orders of brothers; the Trappists still remain there. Among the congregations of nuns which were first founded in the diocese are: the Soeurs du Saint-Esprit, teachers and hospitallers, with their mother-house at Poligny, and the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of the Immaculate Conception, teachers and hospitallers, with their mother-house at Lons-le-Saunier. At the close of the nineteenth century the religious congregations directed in the diocese 39 day nurseries, 2 asylums for invalids, 6 boys' orphanages, 1 home for the poor, 1 asylum for Magdalenes, 14 hospitals or hospices, 3 dispensaries, 23 houses of nuns devoted to nursing the sick in their own homes, 1 house of retreat, 2 hospices for incurables, and 1, asylum for the insane. At the end of the Concordat period (1905) the Diocese of Saint-Claude contained 261,288 inhabitants, 34 parishes, 356 sucursal parishes, 24 vicariates, towards the support of which the State contributed.

Gallia christiana (nova, 1728), IV, 241-254; BENOÎT Hist. de l'abbye et de la terre de S. Claude, (Montreuil-sur-mer, 1890); POUPARDIN, Etude sur les deux diplômes de Charlemagne pour l'abbaye de S. Claude in Moyen-âge (1903); LARBEY DE BILLY, Hist. de l'Université du comté de bougogne, (Bresançon, 1814); BEAUNE AND D'ARBAUMONT, Les universités de Franche-Comté, (Dijon, 1870); PUFFENEY, Hist. de Dole, (Besançon, 1882); PIDOUX, Hist. de la confrérie de Saint Yves des avocats, de la Sainte Hostie miraculeuse et de la confrérie du Saint Sacrement de Dole, (1902).

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  35. Back to citation "Paternae Charitatis", § 4, p. 2297, column 2.
  36. Back to citation Born at the chateau de Fargues in 1708, Méallet held a doctorate in theology (Paris). He was a canon-count of Lyon from 1725 and abbot of Saint-Ambroise in Bourges from 1736. He was appointed Grand-Vicar of Lyon in 1739. He died on 19 March 1785. Jean, pp. 237-238. Ambroise Tardieu, Dictionnaire iconographique de l'ancienne Auvergne... (Clermont-Ferrand: P. Raclot, 1904), p. 144. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 169 with note 2.
  37. Back to citation Chabot: Jean, p. 238. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VI, p. 169 with note 3.
  38. Back to citation In 1797, Moïse (Moyse) was elected metropolitan of Vosges, but he refused the transfer and remained bishop of Jura. Moyse died on 7 February 1813. Pisani, pp. 263-270.
  39. Back to citation Chamon had been vicar-general of Carcassonne. He was nominated by a royal ordonnance of King Louis XVIII of 13 January 1823, and approved by Pope Pius VII on 16 May 1823. He was consecrated a bishop on 13 July. Almanach du clergé de France, pour l'an 1851, (in French), (Paris: M.-P. Guyot, 1851), p. 227. Brune, p. 555. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VII, p. 153.
  40. Back to citation Mabilee was transferred to the diocese of Versailles in 1858, by Pope Pius IX. Brune, pp. 554-555; p. 685.
  41. Back to citation Fillion was transferred to the diocese of Le Mans on 7 April 1862, by Pope Pius IX. Brune, p. 555-556.
  42. Back to citation Nogret: Brune, p. 556. Ritzler & Sefrin, Hierarchia catholica VIII, p. 208.
  43. Back to citation Marpot: Brune, p. 557.
  44. Back to citation Maillet: Brune, p. 557.
  45. Back to citation also Archbishop of Sens
  46. Back to citation Bishop Legrez was named Archbishop of Albi on 2 February 2011, by Pope Benedict XVI.
  47. Back to citation "Resignations and appointments, 04.11.2019" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 26 October 2019. Retrieved 4 November 2019. On 4 November 2019, Bishop Jordy was appointed archbishop of Tours by Pope Francis.
  48. Back to citation Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Claude, official website

Bibliography

Studies

  • Benoît, Joseph Paul Augustin (1892). Histoire de l'abbaye et de la terre de Saint-Claude. (in French). Volume 2. Montreuil-sur-mer: Imprimerie de la Chartreuse de Nôtre-Dame-des-Prés 1892.
  • Brune, P. (1907). L'épiscopat français depuis le Concordat jusqu'à la Séparation (1802-1905). (in French). Paris: Société bibliographique (France), Librairie des Saints-Pères, 1907. pp. 554-557
  • Ferroul-Montgaillard, Jean Joseph Gratien de (1855). Histoire de l'abbaye de St-Claude depuis sa fondation jusqu'à son érection en évêché. (in French). Volume 2. Lons-le-Saunier: Frédéric Gauthier, 1855.
  • Hours, Bernard. "La création du diocèse de Saint-Claude, ou les vicissitudes d'une sécularisation (1634-1742)," (in French) in: Revue historique de l'église de France 70 (Turnholt: Brepols 1984). pp. 317–334. At Persée:
  • Jean, Armand (1891). Les évêques et les archevêques de France depuis 1682 jusqu'a 1801. (in French). Paris: A. Picard, 1891. Pp. 237-239.
  • Pisani, Paul (1907). Répertoire biographique de l'épiscopat constitutionnel (1791-1802) (in French). Paris: A. Picard et fils.
  • Rey, Maurice (1977). Les Diocèses de Besançon et de Saint-Claude. (in French). Paris: Beauchesne, 1977.
  • Richard, Jean François Nicolas (1851). Histoire des diocèses de Besançon et de Saint-Claude. (in French). Volume 2. Besançon: Librairie ecclésiastique de Cornu, 1851. pp. 416-504

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