Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy

Jean -Joseph de Languet Gergy (* August 25, 1677 in Dijon, † May 11 1753 in Sens ) was a French bishop.

Languet de Gergy came from a family with long; his father was a prosecutor in Burgundy. Since his childhood, promoted him Bishop Jacques Bossuet Bénigne; which then also King Louis XIV introduced him. This then gave him the same day the Office of the confessor of the Princess Mary Adelaide of Savoy. During this time he was also appointed Vicar General of the Diocese of Autun.

1715 appointed one Languet de Gergy Bishop of Soissons. The highlight of his ecclesiastical career, he reached in 1730 with his appointment as Archbishop of Sens.

1721 elected to the Académie française Languet de Gergy the successor of the late Marc -René d' Argenson on armchair 1 He himself found after his death in naturalist Georges- Louis Leclerc de Buffon, a worthy successor.

Reception

Languet de Gergy fought against the Jansenists and was a vehement opponent of the theologian Pasquier Quesnel. Found support he and his colleagues with Pope Clement XI. and its bull Unigenitus of 1713.