Dominique-Marie Varlet

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1678 – 1742

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Who was Dominique-Marie Varlet?

Dominique-Marie Varlet was a French Catholic bishop who caused a schism with the Roman Catholic Church. He had a Doctorate in Theology from the Sorbonne and was ordained in 1706, and exercised his ministry first in parishes around Paris.

After a stint in the seminary of Foreign Missions of Paris, he went to North America to evangelize the Indians of New France from 1713 to 1718. On a visit to Quebec in 1718, he was recalled to France by the hierarchy, named Bishop Coadjutor of M Gr Pidou Louis-Marie de Saint-Olon, Bishop Titular of Babylon and consecrated in Paris on February 19, 1719 by Jacques de Goyon Matignon, Bishop Emeritus of Condom.

He went to Persia, stopping in Amsterdam where he learned that the episcopal of Utrecht was vacant, because the Pope had refused the candidate proposed by the Cathedral Chapter of Utrecht, with Canon Cornelius Steenoven suspected of Jansenism.

Varlet agreed to confirm several hundred people then he left for his bishopric in Babylon. He then moved to Shamaké. On 26 March 1720, he learned that Rome had suspended him from duty on 7 May 1719, following confirmation that he had ministered in Holland.

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Born
Mar 15, 1678
Also known as
  • Dominique Marie Varlet
Died
May 14, 1742

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on July 23, 2013

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