COLBERT de CROISSY, CHARLES-JOACHIM. - Bishop of Montpellier, Jansenist, b. in Paris on 11 June 1667, d. at Montpellier on 8 Apr. 1738. He studied at the Sorbonne, and in 1696 was appointed bishop of Montpellier.

In 1702 he had the Oratorian F. A. Pouget's Catéchisme de Montpellier published, translated into various languages and widely circulated; but it was later placed on the Index in 1721 for Jansenist ideas. Numerous corrected editions of it subsequently appeared, widely circulated until the beginning of the 19th century. In 1711, when Louis XIV prohibited Quesnel's Réflexions morales, C. passed openly into the Jansenist camp. In the disputes raised by the bull Unigenitus (1713), he played a leading part, publishing instructions and pastoral letters that helped to embitter the struggle and were the object of severe condemnation by the Church (decree of 1743).

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BIBL.: V. Durand, Le jansénisme au XVIIIe siècle et J. C., Toulouse 1907; Pastor, XV (v. index); J. Höflinger, Gesch. des Katech. in Osterr., Innsbruck 1937, p. 13.

Luigi Michelini Tocci

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