Cardinal de Soubise | |
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| Cardinal,Bishop of Strasbourg | |
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| In office | 1749–1756 |
| Predecessor | Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan |
| Successor | Louis Constantin de Rohan |
| Previous posts | Grand Almoner of France (1745–1748) CoadjutorBishop of Strasbourg (1742–1749) Titular Bishop of Ptolemais in Thebaide (1742–1749) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 23 December 1741 |
| Consecration | 4 November 1742 by Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan |
| Created cardinal | 10 April 1747 byPope Benedict XIV |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 December 1717 |
| Died | 28 June 1756 (aged 38) Saverne, France |
François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan-Soubise, Prince ofTournon, Prince ofRohan (1 December 1717,Paris – 28 June 1756,Saverne) was aFrenchprelate,Prince-Bishop ofStrasbourg. His parents,Anne Julie de Melun andJules, Prince de Soubise, both died ofsmallpox when he was still a child.
He receivedHoly Orders as aCatholic priest on 23 December 1741[1] and received the position ofcommendatory abbot first of the Abbey ofVentadour, which was succeeded by that ofSaint-Epvre (in theDiocese of Toul) from 1736, and later added was that ofPrince-Abbot of the Abbeys ofMurbach and ofLure in 1737. He was elected to theAcadémie française on 15 July 1741.
A year later he was appointedcoadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Strasbourg. He was the great-nephew of the incumbentPrince-Bishop, CardinalArmand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan, and was simultaneously named as thetitular bishopin partibus of Ptolemais inPalestine (nowAcre, Israel). He wasconsecrated a bishop on the following 4 November. He was madeGrand Almoner of France in 1745 and acardinal in 1747.
Upon the death of his great-uncle in 1749, he automatically became Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg and became commendatory abbot of the greatAbbey of La Chaise-Dieu that same year, giving up that of Saint-Epvre.
He died in 1756 oftuberculosis.
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| Preceded by | Bishop of Strasbourg 1749-1756 | Succeeded by |
