Pierre-Louis de Leyssin

Pierre-Louis Leysin (born in Aosta in the Dauphiné May 2, 1721 - died in Munich in Bavaria August 26, 1801) was a French clergyman who was the 81st and last Archbishop of Embrun from 1767 to 1790. Having refused to take the constitutional oath, he died in exile.

Pierre-Louis Leyssin was the son of François-Louis (died July 22, 1783), Knight of the Order of St. Louis, Baron Domeyssin, co-lord of Culloz and his wife Françoise-Marie de la Martinière.

In the Church, he had a long ecclesiastical career. He received minor orders March 11, 1742, becomes sub-deacon March 30, 1743 and 1745. deacon April 30 he was ordained a priest on December 23, 1747. Doctor of Theology of the Sorbonne in Paris, he received the diaconate of St. noble -Etienne-Saint-Chef Vienna. Vicar-general Jean-Sébastien Barral to Castres bishopric in 1752 he obtained the archdeacon of the Cathedral.

Commendatory of the royal abbey of Saint-Nicolas Septfontaines in the diocese of Reims, he was chosen as vicar general by Claude-Joseph-Mathias Barral, bishop of Troyes. He is member of the Assembly of the clergy of 1765. He was finally appointed Archbishop of Embrun April 19 and confirmed June 15, 1767. He was consecrated on July 5 by Alexandre Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord.

He chairs the Dauphiné States from December 1788 to January 1790.

He refused to sign the Constitution civile du clergé of 12 July 1790 and refused to take the oath of loyalty. Ignace Caseneuve was appointed constitutional bishop of Hautes-Alpes department in March 1791 and crowned in Paris on 3 April. Pierre-Louis Leyssin was driven from his cathedral in April 1791, where he first retired to Mont-Dauphin twenty kilometers from Embrun.

On July 13, he joined the Tronchet Ceillac in Queyras and reached the Valley of Maurin. He then fled to the Sardinian States where he resided until the French invasion in 1796 and finally in he moved to Munich in Bavaria, where he died in 1801 the year the Concordat permanently removes the archbishop of Embrun.