Roman Catholic Diocese of Mende
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mende (Latin: Diocoesis Mimatensis), is a diocese
of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church
in France
. The diocese covers the department of Lozère
.
A suffragan of Bourges
under the ancien régime, it was re-established by the Concordat of 1801
as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lyons and united with the department of Ardèche
, which however it lost again in 1822 by the creation of the Diocese of Viviers, when Mende became suffragan to Albi. On December 16, 2002, Mende was made a suffragan to Montpellier. It has its seat at Mende Cathedral.
Diocese
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of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
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in France
France
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. The diocese covers the department of Lozère
Lozère
Lozère , is a department in southeast France near the Massif Central, named after Mont Lozère.- History :Lozère is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...
.
A suffragan of Bourges
Archdiocese of Bourges
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The Archdiocese comprises the departements of Cher and Indre in the Region of Val de Loire....
under the ancien régime, it was re-established 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....
as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lyons and united with the department of Ardèche
Ardèche
Ardèche is a department in south-central France named after the Ardèche River.- History :The area has been inhabited by humans at least since the Upper Paleolithic, as attested by the famous cave paintings at Chauvet Pont d'Arc. The plateau of the Ardeche River has extensive standing stones ,...
, which however it lost again in 1822 by the creation of the Diocese of Viviers, when Mende became suffragan to Albi. On December 16, 2002, Mende was made a suffragan to Montpellier. It has its seat at Mende Cathedral.
Pre-Revolutionary (selected only)
- Guillaume DurandGuillaume DurandGuillaume Durand, or William Durand, , also known as Durandus, Duranti or Durantis, from the Italian form of Durandi filius, as he sometimes signed himself, was a French canonist and liturgical writer, and Bishop of Mende.-Life:He was born at Puimisson, near Béziers, of a noble family of Languedoc...
1286-1296 - Giuliano della Rovere 1478-1479 (appointed Bishop of Sabina)
- Gabriel-Florent de Choiseul-Beaupré 1723-1767
Post-Revolutionary (complete)
- Jean-Baptiste de Chabot 1802-1804
- Etienne-Parfait-Martin Maurel de Mons 1805-1821 (appointed Bishop of Avignon)
- Claude-Jean-Joseph Brulley de La Brunière 1821-1848
- Jean-Antoine-Marie Foulquier 1849-1873
- Joseph-Frédéric Saivet 1872-1876 (appointed Bishop of Perpignan-Elne)
- Julien Costes 1876-1889
- François-Narcisse Baptifolier 1889-1900
- Henri-Louis-Alfred Bouquet 1901-1906 (appointed Bishop of Chartres)
- Jacques-Jean Gely 1906-1929
- Jules-Alexandre Cusin 1929-1937
- François-Louis Auvity 1937-1945
- Maurice-Paul-Jules Rousseau 1945-1950 (appointed Bishop of Laval)
- Emile-Charles-Raymond Pirolley 1951-1957 (appointed Bishop of Nancy)
- René-Jean-Prosper-Bruno Boudon 1957-1983
- Roger Lucien Meindre 1983-1989 (appointed Archbishop of Albi)
- Paul Émile Joseph Bertrand 1989-2001
- Robert Jean Louis Le Gall, O.S.B. 2001-2006 (appointed Archbishop of Toulouse)
- François Joseph Marie Jacolin, M.D.P. (2007 onwards)