Embrun, Hautes-Alpes

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There is also an Embrun in Ontario, Canada.

Administration
Commune of Embrun Porch of the lions, Embrun
Location
Longitude	06° 29' 46" E
Latitude	44° 33' 57" N
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Hautes-Alpes
Arrondissement	Gap
Canton	Embrun (chief town)
Intercommunality	Communauté des communes de l'Embrunais
Mayor	Chantal Eyméoud (2001-2008)
Statistics
Altitude	778 m–2,800 m (avg. 871 m)
Land area¹	36.39 km²
Population² (1999)	6,703
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	05046/ 05200
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Embrun is a town and commune in the Hautes-Alpes département in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regin, in southeastern France.

1 Description
2 Ecclesiastical history
3 See also
4 Sources and external links

[edit] Description

It is located between Gap and Briançon and at the eastern end of the largest artificial lake in Europe: the Lac de Serre-Ponçon.

The town of Embrun, Canada was named after Embrun in 1856.

[edit] Ecclesiastical history

The former archdiocese of Embrun had as suffragans Digne, Antibes and Grasse, Vence, Glandèves, Senez and Nice.

Tradition ascribes the evangelization of Embrun to Saints Nazarius and Celsus, martyrs under emperor Nero.

The first bishop was St. Marcellinus (354-74).

Other bishops of Embrun were St. Albinus (400-37); St. Palladius (first half of the sixth century); St. Eutherius (middle of the seventh century); St. James (eighth century); St. Alphonsus (eighth century); St. Marcellus (end of the eighth century), whom Charlemagne sent to evangelize Saxony; St. Bernard (805-25), under whose episcopate Charlemagne enriched the diocese of Embrun; St. Benedict (beginning of the tenth century), martyred by the Saracen invaders; St. Liberalis (920-40); St.Hismide (1027-45); St. Guillaume (1120-34), founder of the celebrated Abbey of Boscodon; St. Bernard Chabert (1213-35), Blessed Henry of Segusio (1250-71), known as (H)Ostiensis, i.e. Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, an orator and canonist of renown; the Dominican Raimond of Mévolhon (1289-94), who defended the doctrine of St. Thomas against the attacks of English theologians; Bertrand of Deaux (1323-38), who as the legate of Clement VI at Rome did much to bring about the downfall of Rienzi; Jacques Gelu (1427-32), one of the first prelates to recognize the supernatural vocation of Joan of Arc; Giulio de' Medici (1510-11), later pope under the name of Clement VII; Cardinal François de Tournon (1517-26), employed on diplomatic missions by king Francis I of France, and founder of the College de Tournon; Cardinal de Tencin (1724-40), who in September, 1727, caused the condemnation by the Council of Embrun of the Jansenist Soanen, Bishop of his suffragan see of Senez.

St. Vincent Ferrer preached several missions against the Vaudois in the Diocese of Embrun.

Besides the bishops named the following are honored as saints in the present Diocese of Gap: Vincent, Orontius and Victor, martyrs in Spain in the fourth century, the anchorite Veranus (sixth century), afterwards Bishop of Cavaillon, and the anchorite St. Donatus (sixth century).

When the diocese of Gap was re-established in 1822 it comprised, besides the ancient Diocese of Gap, a large part of the ancient archdiocese of Embrun. The name of this last metropolitan see, however, has been absorbed in the title of the Archbishop of Aix.

[Embrun Cathedral:[1],[2]