Career
One of his ancestors had collaborated in building the Canal Royal du Languedoc (Canal du Midi) under Riquet and had acquired the land of Falga that Jean-Baptiste came to inhabit in 1786. The fourth of the six Caffarelli brothers (who also had 4 sisters), he was ordained priest at 20, as canon of the cathedral at Montpellier. Consecrated concordataire-bishop of Saint Brieuc on 1 May 1802, Saint Brioc day, he was bishop for 13 years, and in 1811 objected to Napoleon"s schismatic pretensions.
He ordained the comte de Quelen as a priest, who later became archbishop of Paris and conferred the priesthood on Lacordaire.
He was a chevalier of the Légion d"Honneur and a baron d"Empire.