Gabriel Cortois de Quincey
Gabriel Cortois de Quincey, ecclesiastic, was the last bishop of Belley from 1751 to 1791.Biography
Gabriel Cortois de Quincey was the third son of Antoine Cortois-Humbert, Baron of Attignat and Anne Guillaume of Quincey. He is the uncle of two bishops: Pierre-Marie-Magdeleine Cortois de Balore, bishop of Nîmes and Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny, bishop of Saint-Malo then archbishop of Besançon, son of his older brother Claude Antoine co-lord of Quincey with it.
Destined for the Church, he is archdeacon and then vicar general of the first bishop of Dijon and his successor. He received at this time in 1746 the commend of abbey Saint-Martin d'Autun.
Named bishop of Belley in 1751, it is confirmed on July 19 and consecrated in August by William of Hugues, archbishop of Vienna. In 1759, he moved the relics of Saint Anthelme in 1762. He sided with the Jesuits. He was commissioned from the convent of Conches to the diocese of Evreux in 1764. In 1772 he presided over the representative of the Holy See the general chapter of the Friars Minor in Grenoble. In 1783 he became commendatory of the abbey of Ambronay in the diocese of Lyon.
After the promulgation of the civil Constitution of the clergy he refuses to take the oath but he continues to reside in the episcopal palace he had rebuilt. He died January 14, 1791 before the election of the constitutional bishop Jean-Baptiste Royer. A funerary monument was erected to him by his two nephew bishops.
