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At the National Constituent Assembly , Expilly was president of the Ecclesiastical Committee working on the Civil Constitution Of The Clergy , which in 1790 reorganised the Church in France, notably by creating one Diocese per Département . The Constitution also stated that bishops should in future be elected, not appointed by the Vatican . On September 30, 1790 the Bishop Of Cornouaille (also known as the Bishop of Quimper) died. His successor would be the first bishop to be chosen by the new constitutional rules. On November 1, the electoral body for Finistère was convened at Quimper Cathedral despite opposition from the cathedral Chapter . Under Canon Law , the chapter or one of their number could act as bishop until a new one was appointed. In a third round of voting, Expilly was supported by 233 of the 380 electors while 125 votes went to the from the new Civil Constitution, and known as a '' Refractory '' priest.Refractory priests or ''refractaires'', also called ''non-jureurs'' (non-jurors or non-oath-takers) were priests who would not promise to uphold the new Civil Constitution of the Clergy. Expilly was proclaimed the first constitutional bishop of France. Church traditionalists would not support an elected bishop and so there was no-one to Consecrate him. The Archbishop Of Rennes refused, and in the end, Expilly had to go to Paris to be made a bishop by Talleyrand , the revolutionary Bishop Of Autun . The consecration eventually took place on February 24, 1791 . In April 1791, ; they omitted the oath of obedience to the Pope; they neglected the examination and confession of faith which are prescribed in the Roman pontifical which should be observed universally; and they broke and despised all laws. They did this even though they must have known that the former candidate had been wrongly elected bishop of Quimper against the serious and repeated objections of the Chapter...''" Expilly was connected with the Girondist ''Commission des douze'' (Committee of Twelve), a group which stirred up opposition by a vigorous campaign of arresting "conspirators". He was imprisoned in June 1793 , but released in August after modifying his position. However, he did not survive much longer. On May 22, 1794 he was Guillotine d in Brest, the last person executed that day as he had been giving Absolution to his fellows waiting at the scaffold. There would be no Bishop of Quimper/Cornouaille for the next four years. FOOTNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY
EXTERNAL LINKS ''This article is largely based on the French Wikipedia article about Expilly. '' |
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