:''for Henri de Villars,

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, see

Henri de Villars (died 1354) :''for Henri de Villars, Archbishop of Vienne, see Henri de Villars (died 1693)'' Henri de Villars otherwise Henri de Thoire-Villars (died 1354) was a 14th-century French prelate, latterly archbishop of Lyon. Life Henri was the son of Humbert V, ...

'' Henri de Villars (c. 1621–December 27, 1693) was a French

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, latterly

Archbishop of Vienne The Archbishopric of Vienne, named after its episcopal seat in Vienne in the Isère département of southern France, was a metropolitan Roman Catholic archdiocese. It is now part of the Archdiocese of Lyon. History The legend according to whic ...

from 1662 to his death.

Life

Henri was born in Rome, the son of Claude de Villars, Baron de Maclas, and his wife Charlotte de Calvisson. His brother was the writer and diplomat

Pierre de Villars Pierre de Villars (1623, Paris - 20 March 1698, Paris), known by courtesy as the Marquis de Villars, was a French diplomat and Councillor of State. He was the son of Claude de Villars, mestre de camp and gentleman of the King's bedchamber, and o ...

. His uncle was

.François-Zénon Collombet, ''Histoire de la Sainte Église de Vienne'', Lyon, 1847. He was a canon and ''capiscopal'' in

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. In 1650 he attended the general assembly of the clergy of the ecclesiastical province of Vienne. In 1651 he was appointed general agent of the clergy of France following the death of Théophile du Chemin de Lauraet. On August 30, 1655, he was appointed

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of Philippopolis of Arabia and coadjutor with his uncle Pierre de Villars, Archbishop of Vienne, whom he succeeded as archbishop on May 25, 1662. He established a

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Vienne Vienne (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Viéne'') is a landlocked department in the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It takes its name from the river Vienne. It had a population of 438,435 in 2019.Oratory of Jesus The Congregation of the Oratory of Jesus and Mary Immaculate (french: Société de l'Oratoire de Jésus et de Marie Immaculée, la, Congregatio Oratorii Iesu et Mariæ), best known as the French Oratory, is a society of apostolic life of Catho ...

, and undertook to reform the

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of the diocese.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Villars, Henri De Archbishops of Vienne 1620s births 1693 deaths