Jean-Armand de Bessuéjouls Roquelaure ( Lassouts,

Aveyron Aveyron (; oc, Avairon; ) is a department in the region of Occitania, Southern France. It was named after the river Aveyron. Its inhabitants are known as ''Aveyronnais'' (masculine) or ''Aveyronnaises'' (feminine) in French. The inhabitants ...

24 February 1721 – 23 April 1818), was

Archbishop of Mechelen In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdioc ...

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. He was appointed

Bishop of Senlis The former French Catholic diocese of Senlis existed from the sixth century, at least, to the French Revolution. Its see was at Senlis, in the modern department of Oise, in northern France. It was suppressed by the Concordat of 1801, its territo ...

(

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) on 17 March 1754 and resigned on 21 September 1801. He was appointed Archbishop on 9 April 1802.

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Jean-Armand de Bessuéjouls Roquelaure
1721 births 1818 deaths People from Aveyron 18th-century French Roman Catholic bishops 19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in France Roman Catholic archbishops of Mechelen-Brussels Bishops of Senlis Members of the Académie Française {{Belgium-RC-bishop-stub

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