Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay

Louis-François Duplessis de Mornay (1663-1741) is bishop of Quebec of 1728 with 1733.

Capuchin, native of Valves, in Brittany, it is chosen by Monseigneur of Saint-Vallier to be his coadjutor with évêché of Quebec. This choice having been approved, it obtains bubbles of Clément XI, the month of March 1713, and is crowned in Paris, in the church of the capuchins, Rue Saint-Honore, by the Cardinal of Rohan, under the title of bishop of Euménie in Phrygie, on April 22nd, 1714.

It will make its residence with Cambrai, whose archbishop is absent. With died of Monseigneur of Saint-Vallier, he is recognized bishop from Quebec, in Paris, on May 31st, 1728. He addresses, the same day, with Mr. Eustace Chartier de Lotbinière, archdeacon of the cathedral, a procuration for the purpose of taking, on his behalf, possession of the episcopal see of Quebec; what is made on September 15th of the same year.

It obtains Mr. Pierre-Hermann Dosquet for coadjutor, and the envoit in News-France in 1729. It is dislocated of sound évêché of Quebec on September 12th, 1733, in Paris, where it dies on November 28th, 1741, 78 years old, without being ever come in Canada.

Sources

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.

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