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Jean-Baptiste Miroudot du Bourg


Jean-Baptiste Miroudot du Bourg (6 August 1722, Vesoul – 24 May 1798, Hôpital des incurables, Paris) was a French bishop.

On 15 April 1776 he was made French consul to Baghdad and Latin bishop of Baghdad, seat of a titular see under the bishop of Genoa. He set out for the city in 1781 with his nephew Joseph de Beauchamp as his vicar general, astronomer and correspondent to the Académie des sciences. Miroudot stayed a few months in Aleppo, but did not move on to Baghdad, using health reasons as a pretext. He finally returned to France, where in 1783 he was dismissed as consul to Baghdad. On 24 February 1791 he assisted Talleyrand in the consecration of the first constitutional bishops, Louis-Alexandre Expilly de La Poipe, bishop of Finistère and Claude Marolles, bishop of Aisne.



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