François de Bovet (March 21, 1745,

Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint- ...

– April 6, 1838, Paris) was

bishop of Sisteron The former French diocese of Sisteron existed until the French Revolution. Its see was at Sisteron in southern France and at Forcalquier, in the modern department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Sisteron was the only diocese in France which had two ...

from 1789 to 1812, and from 1817 to 1820 was archbishop of Toulouse. He was consecrated as bishop on September 13, 1789, in Paris. Due to religious persecution he had to leave France for much of the Revolution. He did not resign his bishopric in line with the

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, but instead held on to his diocese until 1812. Since the consecrator of him is not known and some of the bishops alive today can trace their episcopal lineage back to him, the person of François de Bovet is very important for the history of the Catholic Church. This so-called de Bovet lineage includes eight members of the episcopate scattered between Malaysia (four), Indonesia (one), Taiwan (one) and China (two).

Works

*1797: ''Réflexions sur un prétendu bref du 5 juillet 1796'' *1801: ''Réflexions sur la promesse de fidélité à la constitution'' *1817: ''Observations de Monseigneur de Bovet, évêque de Sisteron'' *1819: ''Les Consolations de la foi sur les malheurs de l'Église'' *1835: ''Les dynasties égyptiennes'' *1835: ''Histoire des derniers pharaons et des premiers rois de Perse, selon Hérodote, tirée des livres prophétiques et du livre d'Esther'' (2 vol.) *1840: ''L'Esprit de l'Apocalypse''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bovet, Francois de Clergy from Grenoble 1745 births 1838 deaths 19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in France Bishops of Sisteron Archbishops of Toulouse French Egyptologists