Antoine de Montazet (17 August 1713 – 2 May 1788) was a French theologian, of

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tendencies, who became bishop of Autun and

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. He was elected to the

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in 1756, but did not produce significant literary works. Montazet was born in Laugnac. He had published for his seminary by the Oratorian Joseph Valla, six volumes of "Institutiones theologicæ". These were known as "Théologie de Lyon", and were spread throughout Italy by

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, bishop of Pistoia and Prato, until condemned by the Index in 1792. Contrary to the papal bull of

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on the

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, Montazet changed the text of the Breviary and the Missal. The later efforts of

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and

Cardinal Bonald Louis Jacques Maurice de Bonald (30 October 1787 – 23 February 1870) was a French cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon.Catholic Encyclopedia, article Lyons
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Montazet, Antoine de 1713 births 1788 deaths People from Lot-et-Garonne 18th-century French Catholic theologians Jansenists Bishops of Autun Archbishops of Lyon Members of the Académie Française 18th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in France 18th century in Lyon