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Doc (Lat. Docceus), Jean

a French prelate, was a Benedictine monk of the abbey of Saint-Denis, near Paris, also doctor of theology and canonical law, as well as an excellent preacher. He was elevated to the dignity of a grand-prior of Saint-Denis, and in 1557 was placed in the episcopal see of Laon. He died in 1560, leaving De AEterna Filii Dei Generatione (Paris, 1554): — Homiliae per Annum (Antwerp, 1640). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.