The former French Catholic diocese of Saint-Pons-de-Thomières existed from 1317 until the French Revolution

French Revolution

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. Its see at Saint-Pons-de-Thomières

Saint-Pons-de-Thomières

Saint-Pons-de-Thomières is a commune in the Hérault department in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France.-History:It is named after its patron saint, St...

 in southern France is in the modern department of Hérault

Hérault

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. There was the Abbey of St-Pons, founded in 936 by Raymond, Count of Toulouse, who brought there the monks of St-Géraud d'Aurillac.

By the Concordat of 1801

Concordat of 1801

The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, signed on 15 July 1801. It solidified the Roman Catholic Church as the majority church of France and brought back most of its civil status....

, the territory of the diocese was added to that of the archdiocese of Montpellier.

Bishops

• Pierre Roger 1318-1324
• Raymond d'Apremont de Roquecorne 1326-1344
• Étienne d'Audebrand or de Chambert 1345-1349
• Gilbert de Mandegaches 1349-1353
• Pierre de Canillac 1353-1361
• Jean de Rochechouart 1361-1381
• Dominique de Florence 1381-1392
• Aimon Séchal 1393-1397
• Pierre Ravot 1397-1409
• Geoffroi de Pompadour 1409-1420
• Aimon de Nicolai 1421-1422
• Guillaume Filastre 1422-1428
• Vital de Mauléon 1428-1435
• Géraud de La Bricoigne (or de Charras) 1435-1463
• Pierre de Treignac de Comborn 1465-1467
• Antoine Balue 1467-1501
• François-Guillaume de Castelnau de Clermont-Lodève 1501-1502
• Franz of Luxemburg 1502-1507 and 1507–1509
• Philip of Luxemburg 1509-1511
• François-Guillaume de Castelnau de Clermont-Lodève 1511-1514 (second time)
• Alessandro Farnèse
  Alessandro Farnese
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   1514-1534 (Cardinal)
• Marino Grimani
  Marino Grimani
  Marino Grimani was an Italian Cardinal and papal legate. He was from an aristocratic Venetian family.He was elected bishop of Ceneda in 1508, when he was under age. He was patriarch of Aquileia in 1517....
  
  1534, Cardinal
• François-Guillaume de Castelnau de Clermont-Lodève 1534-1539 (third time)
• Jacques de Castelnau de Clermont-Lodève 1539-1586
• Pierre-Jacques de Fleyres 1588-1633
• Jean-Jacques de Fleyres 1633-1652
• Michel Tubeuf 1653-1664
• P.-Jean-Fr. de Percin de Montgaillard 1664-1713
• J.-Louis de Bertons de Crillon 1713-1727
• J.-Bapt-Paul-Alexandre de Guenet 1728-1769
• Louis-Henri de Bruyére de Chalabre 1769-1791