See also: Forbin

Charles-Auguste-Marie-Joseph de Forbin-Janson (1785-1844) was bishop of Nancy and Toul and primacy of Lorraine. Born in Paris in France, on November 3rd, 1785, of Michel-Palamède, count de Forbin-Janson, and of Cornélie-Henriette-Sophie-Louise-Hortense-Gabrielle princess of Galéan, it made his studies in Paris and was initially soldier, then listener of the Council of State of Napoleon I in Paris. He was in 1806 listener with the Council of State. It renonça with the administrative career to enter to the seminar. It was ordered with Chambéry in December of 1811, by the bishop of Gap, Mgr of Broue de Varcille.

It was higher seminar of Chambéry and large-vicar of the bishop of Chambéry in 1811-1812. He was vicar and catechist with Saint-Sulpice of Paris of 1812 to 1814. He had been member-Co-founder of the congregation of the Pères of the Mercy of 1814 to 1824, whose statutes were approved by the pope on January 9th, 1815;

He organized in 1814, with Jean-Baptiste Rauzan, the work of the missions, and preached itself. He was preacher of retirements in France (1814-1824), from where he made the pilgrimage of Ground-Holy in 1817. He was named bishop of Nancy in 1823. He was elected on February 20th, 1824 and was crowned in Paris by Mgr Croy the next on June 6th.

In this station, it deployed a zeal which caused many enemies to him. He saw himself thereafter forced to leave his diocese in 1830 following the revolution, but without giving his resignation. Its episcopal Palais had been burned by the insurrectionists. It was exiled in Germany (1830-1831), in Switzerland (1831), in Italy (1831-1832); in Nancy (1832-1839).

It went on a journey in America in the United States (1839-1840), where it establishes the Fathers of the Mercy with Spring Hill close New-Orleans in 1839 and attends the IV Concile of Baltimore in 1840. It embarked for the Canada, where its preachings produced fruits.

September 2nd, 1840, it accepted its letters of general Vicaire of the Diocèse of Montreal. He preached the first ecclesiastical retirement of the clergy of Quebec in 1841; he made the blessing of the famous monument, high on the Mont Saint-Hilaire. He gave a sum of 24.000 francs to provide at the expenses of return of exiled the Canadian policies to Van Dieman.

He set out again for France in 1841-1842 and he went to Rome (1842), where on April 2nd, he is named by the pope Prélat domesticates, assisting with the papal Throne and Roman Count. He goes on a journey in England and Ireland in favor of the Canadian deportees of 1837. He is in Australia in 1842. He went on a journey in Belgium in 1843.

Mgr of Nancy is famous still for a mission which it made with Constantinople, under the Bourbon. He died of a pulmonary Hémorrhagie shortly after his return, in 1844, close to Marseilles, in his brother, the marquis de Forbin-Jnnson, when it was prepared to leave for the China: he had just founded the Œuvre of Holy-Childhood for the repurchase and the baptism of Chinese children. He was buried he Paris.

Narcisse-Eutrope Dionne published his biography in 1895.

References

• Dictionary Bouillet
• general Repertory of the Canadian clergy, by chronological order since the foundation of the colony until our days, by Mgr Cyprien Tanguay, Montreal: Eusèbe Senécal & wire, printers and publishers, 1893.
• biographical Dictionary of the clergy Canadian-French, Jean-Baptist-Arthur Allaire, Montreal: Printing works of the Catholic school of deaf-mute, 1908-1934.