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The 460 electors of the new Constitutional Church met in Annecy on 17 February 1793, but were unable to reach a majority for any candidate until 6 March 1793, when 241 electors chose a professor from the college of Annecy, François-Thérèse Panisset.<ref>Mugnier, pp. 283-297.</ref> He was consecrated in Lyon on 7 April by three constitutional bishops.<ref>Pisani, pp. 306-309.</ref> He resigned his priesthood on 5 February 1794.<ref>Burdet, pp. 179, [https://books.google.com/books?id=J5y6buhl4VIC&pg=PA283 283].</ref>
From March 1799 to July 1800, Provost de Thiollez was in Venice, evading French agents. On 21 March 1800, he participated along with Bishopo Paget in the coronation of Pope Pius VII.<ref>Nestor Albert, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ozdPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA217 Vol. 1, p. 217, 234].
In 1819, [[Pope Pius VII]] united the City of Geneva and twenty parishes with the Diocese of [[Lausanne]].<ref>Pius VII, "Inter multiplices" (20 September 1819), in: [https://books.google.com/books?id=KVtGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA246 ''Bullarii romani continuatio'']. {{in lang|la}}. Vol. XV, pp. 246–248.</ref> In 1822, due to changes in international borders which had placed the territory of the diocese of Geneva in several nations, the area belonging to the Diocese of Geneva but beyond the borders of Switzerland became the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Annecy|Diocese of Annecy]].<ref>Pius VII, the bull "Temporum vices" (30 January 1821), in: [https://books.google.com/books?id=KVtGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA370 ''Bullarii romani continuatio'']. {{in lang|la}}. Vol. XV, pp. 370–371.</ref>
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