Charles Perrot (minister)

Charles Perrot (1541–1608) was a French Reformed minister who served in the Republic of Geneva.

Perrot came from a French family who were Nobles of the Robe and was born in Paris. He studied at the Genevan Academy and in 1564 became a minister. He married Sarah Cop (daughter of Michel Cop) in 1566, and became a citizen of Geneva in 1567. Perrot served as a minister in the city from 1568 until his death. He acted as rector at the Academy from 1570-2 and 1588–92.[1]

Scott Manetsch describes Perrot as "an idealist prone to discouragement, a man of deep piety who valued Christian charity as much a theological precision."[2] Perrot's "pulpit jeremiads against social injustice and his advocacy for the poor sometimes put him at odds with Geneva's magistrates."[3]

References
  1. Posthumus Meyjes, G. H. M. (1991). "Charles Perrot (1541-1608): His Opinion on a Writing of Georg Cassander". Studies in Church History Subsidia. 8. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  2. Manetsch, Scott M. (2013). Calvin's Company of Pastors: Pastoral Care and the Emerging Reformed Church, 1536-1609. Oxford University Press. p. 53.
  3. Manetsch, Calvin's Company of Pastors, p. 54.
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