Jean-François de Gondi
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Jean-François de Gondi was the first archbishop of Paris
Archbishop of Paris
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris is one of twenty-three archdioceses of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The original diocese is traditionally thought to have been created in the 3rd century by St. Denis and corresponded with the Civitas Parisiorum; it was elevated to an archdiocese on...

, from 1622 to 1654.

He was the son of Albert de Gondi
Albert de Gondi
Albert de Gondi seigneur du Perron, comte, then marquis de Belle-Isle , duc de Retz , was a marshal of France and a member of the Gondi family. His father was Guidobaldo, seigneur de Perron, who became a banker at Lyon, and his mother was Marie-Catherine de Pierrevive - his siblings included...

 and Claude Catherine de Clermont
Claude Catherine de Clermont
Claude Catherine de Clermont-Tonnerre de Vivonne , lady of Dampierre, countess and duchess of Retz, was a French noblewoman and salon host.-Life:...

. He was a member of the Gondi family, which had held the bishopric of Paris for nearly a century, and would continue to do so after him. Jean-François succeeded his brother Henri de Gondi. Following his death in Paris
Paris
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, he was succeeded by his nephew Jean-François Paul de Gondi
Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz
Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz was a French churchman, writer of memoirs, and agitator in the Fronde....

, cardinal of Retz.

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