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Making bishops in Tridentine France : the episcopal ideal of Jean-Pierre Camus

Forrestal, A.

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A. Forrestal



Abstract

The experience of Jean-Pierre Camus, a reforming bishop in seventeenth-century France, highlights the problematic ambivalences present within French Catholic reform after the Council of Trent: the persistent tensions between bishops, the papacy and lower clergy over the most effective means of achieving renewal and the most appropriate forms of ecclesiastical government, as well as the growing emphasis upon episcopal perfection within an episcopate that was, paradoxically, closely linked to politics and secular society. His publications on episcopacy provide an insight into the motivations and beliefs of a prominent episcopal reformer and into the ecclesiastical culture of seventeenth-century France. This article seeks to demonstrate that Camus' episcopal ideal was a coherent adaptation of traditional and contemporary views produced in response to post-Tridentine circumstances and that the bishop's published views had a significant impact upon his fellow prelates and their relationship with the papacy.

Citation

Forrestal, A. (2003). Making bishops in Tridentine France : the episcopal ideal of Jean-Pierre Camus. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 54(2), 254-277. https://doi.org/10.1017/s002204690200564x

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2003-04
Deposit Date May 23, 2008
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Print ISSN 0022-0469
Electronic ISSN 1469-7637
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 54
Issue 2
Pages 254-277
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/s002204690200564x
Keywords Council of Trent, Catholic reform, Bishops.
Publisher URL http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=ECH&volumeId=54&issueId=02

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