Louis-Alexandre Expilly de la Poipe [SEP] place of birth
Louis-Alexandre Expilly de la Poipe
Louis-Alexandre Expilly de la Poipe (24 February 1743 in Brest – 22 May 1794 in Brest) was rector of Saint-Martin-des-Champs near Morlaix in Léon, North Finistère. He was one of two deputies elected in 1788 by the Léon assembly of clergy to represent them at the Estates-General convened by Louis XVI.
At the National Constituent Assembly, Expilly was president of the Ecclesiastical Committee working on the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, which in 1790
bishop of Poitiers
- Louis Belmas, bishop of Aude
- Claude Debertier, bishop of Aveyron
- Jean-Baptiste Demandre, bishop of Doubs
- Charles-François Dorlodot, bishop of Mayenne
- Louis-Alexandre Expilly de la Poipe, bishop of Finistère, the first constitutional bishop to be elected
- Claude Fauchet (revolutionist), bishop of Calvados in Normandy
- Léonard Honoré Gay de Vernon, bishop of Haute-Vienne
- Jean-Baptiste Gobel, bishop of Paris
- Henri Grégoire