Charles Perrot (minister)

{{Short description|French Reformed 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 1570–1572 and 1588–1592.{{cite journal |last1=Posthumus Meyjes |first1=G. H. M.|title=Charles Perrot (1541-1608): His Opinion on a Writing of Georg Cassander |journal=Studies in Church History Subsidia |date=1991 |volume=8 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/studies-in-church-history-subsidia/article/charles-perrot-15411608-his-opinion-on-a-writing-of-georg-cassander/5EA8D49E0B1A6D459DF6CAB73C2FEC7D |accessdate=15 August 2020}}

Scott Manetsch describes Perrot as "an idealist prone to discouragement, a man of deep piety who valued Christian charity as much a theological precision."{{cite book |last1=Manetsch |first1=Scott M. |title=Calvin's Company of Pastors: Pastoral Care and the Emerging Reformed Church, 1536-1609 |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=53}} Perrot's "pulpit jeremiads against social injustice and his advocacy for the poor sometimes put him at odds with Geneva's magistrates."Manetsch, Calvin's Company of Pastors, p. 54.