Ignace Cotolendi

Ignace Cotolendi, MEP (23 March 1630 – 16 August 1662) was a French bishop. He was a founding member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society and became a missionary in Asia.

Mgr Ignace Cotolendi (1630-1662).

Life

Born in Brignoles, Var, Cotolendi was recruited by Alexander de Rhodes, SJ, as a secular clergy volunteer to become a missionary in Asia, together with François Pallu and Pierre Lambert de la Motte. These were sent to the Far-East as Apostolic vicars.[1][2][3]

In 1660 Ignace Cotolendi was nominated as titular Bishop of Metellopolis, and Vicar Apostolic of Nanjing,[4] with three regions of northeastern China, Tartary and Korea under his responsibility.[5] He was the first Bishop of what is now the Archdiocese of Nanjing.

The three bishops left France (1660–62) to go to their respective missions, and crossed Persia and India on foot, since Portugal would have refused to take non-Padroado missionaries by ship, and the Dutch and the English refused to take Catholic missionaries.[6] Cotolendi left with three missionaries on 3 September 1661.[7] After travelling overland to India, Ignace Cotolendi died near Masulipatam as he was waiting for his passage to Siam.[8]

See also
  • France-Thailand relations

Notes
  1. Viet Nam By Nhung Tuyet Tran, Anthony Reid p.222
  2. An Empire Divided by James Patrick Daughton, p.31
  3. Asia in the Making of Europe, p.229-230
  4. Mantienne, p.27
  5. Asia in the Making of Europe, p.231
  6. Missions, p.4
  7. Asia in the making of Europe p.232
  8. Asia in the making of Europe p.232-233

References
  • Mantienne, Frédéric 1999 Monseigneur Pigneau de Béhaine Eglises d'Asie, Série Histoire, ISSN 1275-6865 ISBN 2-914402-20-1
  • Missions étrangères de Paris. 350 ans au service du Christ 2008 Editeurs Malesherbes Publications, Paris ISBN 978-2-916828-10-7
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