Antoine de Montazet

His Grace Antoine de Montazet
Archbishop of Lyon
Church	Roman Catholic
Archdiocese	Lyon
See	Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist of Lyon
Installed	2 August 1758
Term ended	2 May 1788
Predecessor	Pierre Guérin de Tencin
Successor	Yves-Alexandre de Marbeuf
Other post(s)	Bishop of Autun
Personal details
Born	(1713-08-17)17 August 1713 Laugnac, Aquitaine, France
Died	2 May 1788(1788-05-02) (aged 74)
Nationality	French

Antoine de Montazet (17 August 1713 – 2 May 1788) was a French theologian of Jansenist tendencies, who became bishop of Autun and archbishop of Lyon. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1756, but did not produce significant literary works.^[1]

Montazet was born in Laugnac. He had published for his seminary by the Oratorian Joseph Valla, six volumes of "Institutiones theologicæ". These were known as "Théologie de Lyon", and were spread throughout Italy by Scipio de' Ricci, bishop of Pistoia and Prato, until condemned by the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1792.

Contrary to the papal bull of Pope Pius V on the Roman Breviary, Montazet changed the texts of both the Breviary and the Missal. The later efforts of Pope Pius IX and Cardinal Bonald to suppress the innovations of Montazet provoked resistance on the part of the canons, who defended the traditional Lyonnese ceremonies.^[2]

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