Christophe de Beaumont | |
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Archbishop of Paris, Duke of Saint-Cloud, Peer of France | |
Church | Roman Catholic Church |
Archdiocese | Paris |
See | Notre-Dame de Paris |
Installed | 19 September 1746 |
Term ended | 12 December 1781 |
Predecessor | Jacques Bonne-Gigault de Bellefonds |
Successor | Antoine-Eléonore-Léon Le Clerc de Juigné |
Other post(s) | Archbishop of Vienne Bishop of Bayonne |
Orders | |
Ordination | 19 June 1734 by François de Crussol d'Uzès |
Consecration | 24 December 1741 by Louis-Jacques Chapt de Rastignac |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | 12 December 1781 Paris, France | (aged 78)
Nationality | French |
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Christophe de Beaumont du Repaire (26 July 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 1741, then Archbishop of Vienne in 1745, and in 1746, at the age of forty-three, Archbishop of Paris.[1] An austere man, with no wish for glory, he had to be summoned three times by Louis XV before he would leave his diocese of Vienne and move to Paris.[2]