Dominique Marie Varlet
| Dominique Marie Varlet | |
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| Roman Catholic Bishop of Babylon | |
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Diocese | Babylon |
| In office | 1719-1742 |
| Predecessor | Pidou Louis-Marie de Saint-Olon |
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| Ordination | 1706 |
| Consecration | February 19, 1719 by Jacques de Goyon Matignon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Paris, France |
| Died | Rijswijk, Netherlands |
| Nationality | French |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Achille Varlet, Sieur de Verneuil & Marie Vallée |
| Education | Doctor of Theology (Sorbonne, 1706) |
Dominique-Marie Varlet (15 March 1678, Paris - 14 May 1742, Rijswijk) was a French, Roman Catholic missionary priest who later served as vicar general of the Diocese of Quebec. Later, as the Roman Catholic Bishop of Babylon, he caused a schism within the Roman Catholic Church by consecrating four successive men as Archbishop of Utrecht.
Varlet was born in Paris on March 15, 1678 to Achille Varlet and Marie Vallée. His father was an actor known by the name Sieur de Verneuil, and his uncle, Charles Varlet de La Grange, was a famous collaborator and friend of Molière. Little is known of his mother, except that she was the daughter of a Parisian hatter, was much younger than her husband, and that she, too, had been involved in theater. Varlet's parents had seen children, but only three survived to adulthood, including Varlet and his younger siblings Jean-Achille (1681-1720) and Marie-Anne.
As a young man, Varlet was enrolled in the Séminaire de Saint-Magloire, an Oratorian school in Paris, where he met two well-known Jansenists with whom he would become fast friends: Jacques Jubé, who would become a renowned liturgist, and Jean Baptiste Paulin d’Aguesseau, the brother of Henri François d’Aguesseau, the chancellor of France. Varlet's family owned a home near Mont Valérien, a famous pilgrimage site, where Varlet came into contact with the Congrégation des prêtres du Calvaire (Congregation of the Priests of Calvary), which he joined in 1699. The strong Jansenist influence of this group would stay with Varlet throughout the remainder of his life.
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