Jean Soanen

Jean Soanen (1647-1740) was a French Oratorian and bishop of Senez. He was a convinced Jansenist.

In opposition to the papal bull "Unigenitus", he with Charles-Joachim Colbert, bishop of Montpellier, Pierre de la Broue who was bishop of Mirepoix, and Pierre de Langle who was bishop of Boulogne, appealed against it in 1717 to a general council. [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04096a.htm "Catholic Encyclopedia"] ] This group and their followers were known as "Appellants"; the council was though entirely hypothetical as an idea.

Later, he sent out a pastoral letter to his congregation, urging the reading of Pasquier Quesnel. Pierre Guérin de Tencin, the archbishop of Embrun, then in 1727 had him exiled from his diocese. [William Doyle, "Jansenism" (2000), p. 53.]

He died in 1740 at La Chaise-Dieu, where he was exiled since 1727.

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