Also known as:
French: Cardinal de Tencin, Pierre Guérin de Tencin
TENCIN, PIERRE. - Cardinal, b. at Grenoble on 22 Aug. 1679, d. at Lyon on 2 March 1758.
In 1721 he accompanied Cardinal de Bissy to Rome as conclavist, and remained there until 1724 as French chargé d'affaires following the departure of Cardinal de Rohan. Archbishop of Embrun in 1724, he convened a provincial Council in 1727 and had the Jansenist bishop of Sens, Soanen, condemned. Created cardinal by Clement XII on 15 July 1739, he became archbishop of Lyon in Feb. 1740. Bound in friendship with Lambertini, he contributed to the latter's elevation to the tiara. From 1740 to 1742 he resided once again in Rome as the king's chargé d'affaires. A Minister of State in 1742, from that year until 1756 he was apostolic legate in France. During these years Benedict XIV maintained with him a copious correspondence, which was published translated into French: E. di Heeckeren, Lettres de Benoît au card. de T. (2 vols., Paris 1912).
Bibliography4 worksM. Boutry, Intrigues et missions du cardinal de T., Paris 1902; P. Richard, Le secret du pape. Un légat apostolique en France, in Revue des
BIBL.: M. Boutry, Intrigues et missions du cardinal de T., Paris 1902; P. Richard, Le secret du pape. Un légat apostolique en France, in Revue des questions historiques, new series, 48 (1912), pp. 27-61 and 364-403; Pastor, XV-XVI, passim; J. Carreyre, T., in DThC, XV, part 1, coll. 115-16, with bibl.
Furlani, Silvio. “Tencin, pierre.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, coll. 1909–1910. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/tencin-pierre.
MLA
Furlani, Silvio. “Tencin, pierre.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, coll. 1909–1910. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/tencin-pierre.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec11_tencin_pierre,
author = {Furlani, Silvio},
title = {Tencin, pierre},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XI},
pages = {1909--1910},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/tencin-pierre}
}
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