François-Armand-Auguste de Rohan-Soubise, Prince of Tournon, Prince of Rohan (1 December 1717, Paris – 28 June 1756, Saverne) was a French prelate, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg. His parents, Anne Julie de Melun and Jules, Prince de Soubise, both died of smallpox when he was still a child.


Cardinal de Soubise
Cardinal, Bishop of Strasbourg
ChurchRoman Catholic Church
In office1749–1756
PredecessorArmand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan
SuccessorLouis Constantin de Rohan
Previous post(s)Grand Almoner of France (1745–1748)
Coadjutor Bishop of Strasbourg (1742–1749)
Titular Bishop of Ptolemais in Thebaide (1742–1749)
Orders
Ordination23 December 1741
Consecration4 November 1742
by Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan
Created cardinal10 April 1747
by Pope Benedict XIV
RankCardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born1 December 1717
Died28 June 1756 (aged 38)
Saverne, France

Biography

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He received Holy Orders as a Catholic priest on 23 December 1741[1] and received the position of commendatory abbot first of the Abbey of Ventadour, which was succeeded by that of Saint-Epvre (in the Diocese of Toul) from 1736, and later added was that of Prince-Abbot of the Abbeys of Murbach and of Lure in 1737. He was elected to the Académie française on 15 July 1741.

A year later he was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Strasbourg. He was the great-nephew of the incumbent Prince-Bishop, Cardinal Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan, and was simultaneously named as the titular bishop in partibus of Ptolemais in Palestine (now Acre, Israel). He was consecrated a bishop on the following 4 November. He was made Grand Almoner of France in 1745 and a cardinal in 1747.

Upon the death of his great-uncle in 1749, he automatically became Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg and became commendatory abbot of the great Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu that same year, giving up that of Saint-Epvre.

He died in 1756 of tuberculosis.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Bishop of Strasbourg
1749-1756
Succeeded by