Jean-Baptiste de Belloy
Jean -Baptiste de Belloy ( born October 9, 1709 Morangles, Dép Oise, . † June 10, 1808 in Paris) was a French bishop and cardinal.
Life
A native of the military nobility Jean -Baptiste de Belloy studied in Paris and was immediately after completing his PhD at the Sorbonne in 1737 vicar general of his native diocese of Beauvais and archdeacon of the cathedral there. Appointed bishop of Glandèves 1751, he received on January 30, 1752 in Paris, Saint- Sulpice, the episcopal consecration by the Bishop of Beauvais, Etienne- René Potier de Gesvres. As Bishop Henri de Belsunce of Marseille on the famous general assembly of the French clergy of 1755, died Belloy was his successor on August 4, 1755.
Already at the meeting of the moderate party belonging, Bishop Belloy could win the trust of warring parties ( proponents and opponents of the papal bull Unigenitus of 1713 ) and thus prevent the threat of schism in the diocese. When his diocese as a result of the French Revolution in 1791 repealed by the National Assembly, although he protested against the dissolution of one of France's oldest episcopal sees, but withdrew quietly on a farm his family to Chambly back. When Pope Pius VII after the Concordat at the request of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1801 asked the bishops of the Ancien Régime to her resignation, Belloy was - now Dean of the French episcopate - the first who obeyed (21 September 1801), and so put an example, which was followed by most of the French bishops. The First Consul ( Bonaparte ) expressed his gratitude for this act of obedience. He transferred to the ' citizens Debelloi ' with date April 9, 1802 the Archdiocese of Paris and secured him on January 17, 1803 at the age of 93 years with Pope Pius VII the cardinal's hat, the Archbishop Napoleon Belloy touched down in Paris on 1 February 1805. De Belloy was in Rome the title of Cardinal Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina.
Despite his age Cardinal de Belloy administered the Archdiocese with amazing energy and efficiency. He had closed during the Revolution churches reopen reorganized the communities, put a new pastor and visitierte it in person. In 1806 he took the crown of thorns of Louis IX. back to their place in the Sainte -Chapelle. He died on June 10, 1808, 98 years and eight months old, and was buried in the Notre Dame Cathedral, where he was Napoleon erect a grave monument. The Archbishop of Paris chair remained vacant for long periods of time Belloys death because the Pope refused to appoint bishops in captivity of Napoleon; only Cardinal Maury accepted in 1810 the appointment of Napoleon without papal approval, the Cardinal Fesch, Napoleon's uncle though had refused. A legitimate successor to Cardinal de Belloys in the sense of the Catholic Church was only in 1817 appointed in the person of Cardinal de Talleyrand; Cardinal Maury himself can be titulieren only as Elect.