André Jourdain (bishop)
André Jourdain (25 May 1780 - 29 May 1859) served as the Bishop of Aosta between 1832 and 1859. Life André Jourdain was born at Saint-André, a village along the Maurienne valley in the mountains of Savoy. He grew up, during the revolutionary years, supervised by an uncle described as one of the most respected parish priests in the Maurienne diocese. He himself was ordained into the diaconate on 15 December 1805 and into the priesthood on 23 April 1806. Jourdain rose rapidly within the church hierarchy. While still only a deacon he became a professor of Dogma and Morals at the Main Seminary at Chambéry, and by the early 1830s had risen to become a canon and vicar-general (administrative deputy-bishop) for the diocese of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. On 13 June 1832 the new king announced Jourdain's selection as the new Bishop of Aosta, which since shortly after the restoration had been controlled as suffragant diocese to the Archdiocese of Chambéry–Saint-Jean- ...
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