CLICHTOVE, JOSSE VAN (d. , Belgian theologian, educated at Louvain and Paris, became librarian of the Sorbonne. In 1519 he was elected bishop of Tournai, and in 1521 was trans lated to the see of Chartres. He is known as an antagonist of Luther. When Cardinal Duprat convened his Synod of Paris in 1528 to discuss the new religion, Clichtove was charged to collect and summarize the objections to the Lutheran doctrine. This he did in his Compendium veritatum . . . contra erroneas Luther anon= assertiones (Paris, 1529). He died at Chartres on Sept. 22, 1543