Jean-René Asseline (1742-1813) was a French bishop and theologian.

Life

His early posts were as grand vicar to

Christophe de Beaumont Christophe de Beaumont du Repaire (19 June 1703– 12 December 1781) was a French cleric who belonged to a cadet branch of the Les Adrets and Saint-Quentin branches of the illustrious Dauphin family of Beaumont. He became Bishop of Bayonne in 17 ...

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, and teaching scripture and theology at the Sorbonne. In 1789 he was made

bishop of Boulogne The former French Catholic diocese of Boulogne existed from 1567 to the French Revolution. It was created after the diocese of Thérouanne was suppressed because of war damage to the see; effectively this was a renaming. The Concordat of 1801 su ...

and

commendatory abbot A commendatory abbot ( la, abbas commendatarius) is an ecclesiastic, or sometimes a layman, who holds an abbey ''in commendam'', drawing its revenues but not exercising any authority over its inner monastic discipline. If a commendatory abbot is an ...

Ham Abbey Ham (; pcd, Hin) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France, northern France. Geography Ham is situated on the D930 and D937 crossroads, some southwest of Saint-Quentin, in the far southeast of the department, near the border wi ...

- he held both posts until the following year, when the abbey and the bishopric were both suppressed. He refused to swear the oath to obey the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1791 and emigrated to

Munster Munster ( gle, an Mhumhain or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" ( ga, rí ruirech). Following the ...

, from where he criticized the Concordat of 1801. In 1807 he was summoned by Louis XVIII and served the French royal family until his death in 1813.Mémoires du Prince de Talleyrand, vol II, page 38, 1891 edition

Works

* ''Instruction pastorale'' - 1790 * ''Instruction sur les atteintes portées à la religion'' - 1798 * ''Considérations sur le mystère de la croix, tirées des divines écritures et des œuvres des SS. Pères'' - Société Typographique Paris - 1806 * ''Exposition abrégée du symbole des apôtres'' - Société Typographique Paris - 1806 * ''La neuvaine a l'honneur de saint François Xavier de la Compagnie de Jésus, Apôtre des Indes & du Japon'' MDCCLXXV - Imprimerie Louis Buisson - Lyon

References

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, ''Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne...'', Paris, Thoisnier Desplaces, 1843–1865, t. 2, Bishops of Boulogne 18th-century French Catholic theologians 19th-century French Catholic theologians 1742 births 1813 deaths 18th-century French Roman Catholic bishops Academic staff of the University of Paris {{France-RC-bishop-stub