Archdiocese of Chambéry

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The French Catholic archdiocese of Chambéry covers the territory of Savoie. Its see is Chambéry Cathedral.

The diocese was created in 1779, from the Diocese of Grenoble, after a complicated earlier history. It became an archdiocese in 1817, not st that point being French territory.

1 History
2 Bishop
3 Archbishops
4 External link

[edit] History

In 1467, in the ducal chapel built for the Holy Winding-Sheet (Santo Sudario, better known as the Turin Shroud) by Amadeus IX of Savoy, and the Duchess Yolande of France, Pope Paul II erected a chapter directly subject to the Holy See, and his successor Pope Sixtus IV, united this chapter with the deanery of Savoy. In 1515 Pope Leo X published a papal bull making the deanery an archbishopric, but Francis I of France objected, and it was only in 1775 that this deanery was separated from the Diocese of Grenoble by Pope Pius VI, who, in 1779, created it a bishopric with the see at Chambéry.

The Duchy of Savoy, politically subject to the King of Sardinia, had thenceforth four bishoprics: Chambéry, the diocese of Saint-Jean de Maurienne, diocese of Tarentaise, and Geneva (with residence at the diocese of Annecy). In October, 1792, the commissaries to the Convention formed the constitutional Diocese of Mont-Blanc, with Annecy as the see and Lyons as the metropolitan. The Concordat of 1802 created a Diocese of Chambéry and Geneva, suffragan of the archdiocese of Lyons.

A Bull dated 17 July, 1817, made Chambéry, once more a city of the Sardinian States, the seat of an archdiocese, with the diocese of Aosta for suffragan; the Dioceses of Annecy (re-established in 1822), Saint-Jean-Maurienne, and Tarentaise (in 1825), soon also became suffragans of Chambéry. After the annexation of Savoy to France, in 1860, this condition continued, except that the Diocese of Aosta was made a suffragan of the archdiocese of Turin.

The Cistercian Abbey of Hautecombe, founded in 1135, is one of the burial places of the House of Savoy. The relic known as the Holy Winding-Sheet of Christ was kept at Chambéry until 1598, in which year the Duke of Savoy had it transported to Turin, where St. Charles Borromeo wished to venerate it. Notre-Dame de Myans (antedating the twelfth century), where St. Francis de Sales officiated, and Notre-Dame de l'Aumone at Romilly (thirteenth century), whither Francis I of France went as a pilgrim, are still places of pilgrimage. The Sisters of St. Joseph, an order devoted to teaching and charitable work, were founded at Chambéry in 1812.

[edit] Bishop

1780 - 1793 Michel Conseil

[edit] Archbishops

1802 – 1805, René des Monstiers (or de Moustier) de Mérinville, also Bishop of Dijon
1805 – 1823, Irénée-Yves De Solle (or Desolle or Dessole), also bishop of Digne
1824 - 1827, François-Marie Bigex, also archbishop of Pignerol
1828 - 1839, Antoine Martinet, also bishop of Tarentaise
1840 - 1873, Cardinal Alexis Billiet, also bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
1873 - 1880, Pierre-Athanase Pichenot, also bishop of Tarbes
1881 - 1893, François-Albert Leuillieux, also bishop of Carcassonne
1803 - 1907, François Hautin, also bishop of Évreux
April to August 1907, Gustave-Adolphe de Pélacot, also bishop of Troyes
1907 - 1914, Cardinal François-Virgile Dubillard, also bishop of Quimper-Cornouailles
1915 - 1936, Dominique Castellan, also bishop of Digne
1937 - 1947, Pierre-Marie Durieux, also bishop of Viviers
1947 - 1966 (?), Louis-Marie-Fernand de Bazelaire de Ruppierre
1966 – 1985, André Bontemps, also [[bishop of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne]
1985 - 2000, Claude Feidt, also archbishop of Aix
2000 - present Laurent Ulrich