Alain de Solminihac

Alain de Solminihac (25 November 1593 – 31 December 1659) was a French Roman Catholic religious reformer and served as the Bishop of Cahors from 1636 until his death.

[1] Solminihac was a professed member of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine of Chancelade in Périgueux, an order now extinct.

He wanted to become a member of the Knights of Malta in order to serve God but felt a strong call to the priesthood and to the religious life so joined the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine of Chancelade in 1613 as a postulant.

Pope Urban VIII appointed him as the Bishop of Cahors on 22 September 1636 (King Louis XIII approved this after meeting him) and he received his episcopal consecration on 27 September 1637 in the French capital of Paris.

He followed the lead of Charles Borromeo in enforcing the decrees of the Council of Trent in his diocese.