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Antoine Martinet
Antoine Martinet (22 April 1776 - 6 May 1839) was a Savoyard state, Savoyard churchman who served between 1828 and 1839 as :fr:Liste des évêques et archevêques de Chambéry, Archbishop :fr:Diocèse de Chambéry, of Chambéry. Biography Early years Antoine Martinet was born into an impoverished family in Beaufortain which at that time was administered as part of Queige. He proved a scholarly child: he undertook religious studies locally and was then sent on to the :fr:Lycée Vaugelas, "Collège royal" (as it was known at that time) in Chambéry. After three years of instruction he won the institution's first prize in Rhetoric. The judgment was also made (and repeated) that a dissertation which he produced on Philosophy was of a quality to be expected from a professor rather than from a pupil. Picked out for ecclesiastical advancement by :fr:Joseph de Montfalcon du Cengle, Archbishop Joseph de Montfalcon du Cengle, he was then transferred to the Seminary, great seminary at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Ancient Diocese Of Tarentaise
The Archdiocese of Tarentaise ( la, Tarantasiensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese and archdiocese in France, with its see in Moûtiers, in the Tarentaise Valley in Savoie. It was established as a diocese in the 5th century, elevated to archdiocese in 794, and disbanded in 1801. The diocese of Tarentaise was again formed in 1825, and united with the diocese of Chambéry and diocese of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to form the Archdiocese of Chambéry, Maurienne and Tarentaise in 1966. History Legend relates that the Centrones were evangelized in the fifth century by James the Assyrian, secretary to St. Honoratus, Archbishop of Arles. He became the first Bishop of Darantasia or Tarentaise, the metropolis of the ''Centrones'', and named St. Marcellus as his successor. The first document in which the Diocese of Tarentaise is reliably mentioned is a letter of Pope Leo I, Leo the Great (5 May, 450) which assigns to the Archdiocese of Vienne, among other suffragans, the Bishop of Tarentaise. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |