Jean-Baptiste Miroudot du Bourg

Jean-Baptiste Miroudot du Bourg (6 August 1722, Vesoul[1] – 24 May 1798, Hôpital des incurables, Paris[2]) was a French bishop.

Life

On 15 April 1776, he was made French consul to Baghdad, and Latin bishop of Baghdad, the seat of a titular see under the bishop of Genoa. He set out for the city in 1781 with his nephew Joseph de Beauchamp as his vicar general, astronomer, and correspondent to the Académie des sciences. Miroudot stayed a few months in Aleppo, but did not move on to Baghdad, using health reasons as a pretext. He finally returned to France,[3] wherein 1783, he was dismissed as consul to Baghdad. On 24 February 1791, he assisted Talleyrand in the consecration of the first constitutional bishops, Louis-Alexandre Expilly de La Poipe, bishop of Finistère, and Claude Marolles, bishop of Aisne.

References
  1. Jean-Baptiste Miroudot catholic-hierarchy.org
  2. (in French) L'église de Paris pendant la Révolution française, 1789-1801, Volume 1, p 413
  3. Régis Pluchet, L'extraordinaire voyage d'un botaniste en Perse. André Michaux : 1782–1785, éditions Privat, 2014.



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