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 (26 July 1703 – 12 December 1781) was a Kingdom of France, 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 Bish ...

archbishop of Paris The Archdiocese of Paris (; ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. It is one of twenty-three archdioceses in France. The original diocese is traditionally thought to have been created i ...

, 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. It belonged to the Ar ...

and

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Ham Abbey Ham (; ) 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 with the d ...

- 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 The Civil Constitution of the Clergy () was a law passed on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution, that sought the Caesaropapism, complete control over the Catholic Church in France by the National Constituent Assembly (France), French gove ...

in 1791 and emigrated to

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, from where he criticized the

Concordat of 1801 The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between the First French Republic and the Holy See, signed by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII on 15 July 1801 in Paris. It remained in effect until 1905, except in Alsace–Lorraine, ...

. In 1807 he was summoned by

Louis XVIII Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (), was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. Before his reign, he spent 23 y ...

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

Bibliography

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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