Diocese of Aire
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The French Catholic Diocese of Aire comprises the territory of Landes.
It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Auch under the old regime, but was not re-established until 1822, when it was again made a suffragan of the re-established Archdiocese of Auch, and was assigned the territory of the former Diocese of Aire and Diocese of Acqs (Dax).
It is a co-cathedral diocese, with sees Aire Cathedral and Dax Cathedral.
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[edit] History
The first bishop mentioned in history is Marcellus, represented at the Council of Agde, 506. Aire, on the river Adour, the home of St. Philibert, numbered among its bishops during the second half of the sixteenth century François de Foix, Count of Candale, an illustrious mathematician, who translated Euclid and founded a chair of mathematics at the University of Bordeaux.
The hamlet renowned as the birthplace of St. Vincent de Paul is within the limits of the present Diocese of Aire. In the Gallo-Roman crypt of Mas d'Aire is preserved in a sarcophagus the body of St. Quitteria, daughter of a governor of Gallicia, and martyred, perhaps under Commodus, for her resolution to remain a virgin.
The city of Saint-Sever, in the Diocese of Aire. owes its origin to an ancient Benedictine abbey, built in the tenth century by a Duke of Gascony as an act of thanksgiving for a victory over the Northmen, and whose church was dedicated to St. Severus. The Gothic church of Mimizan is the only survival of a Benedictine abbey. The church of Carcarés, dating from the year 810, is one of the oldest in France.
[edit] Bishops
[edit] To 1000
- 506, 533 : Marcellus
- 585 : Rusticus
- 614 : Palladius
- ca. 620–630 : Philibaud
- ca. 633–675 : Ursus
- ca. 788 : Asinarius
- ca. 977 : Gombaud
[edit] 1000 to 1300
- ca. 1017 : Arsius-Racca
- 1060 : Raymond le Vieux
- 1060–1092 : Peter I.
- 1092–1099 : Peter II.
- 1100–1115 : Wilhelm
- 1116–1147 : Bonhomme
- 1148–ca. 1176 : Vital de Saint-Hermes
- ca. 1176–1179 : Odon d’Arbéchan
- ? : Bertrand de Marsan
- ? : Guillaume Bernard
- 1211 : Vital de Beufmort
- 1211 : Jourdain
- ? : Gauthier
- 1224–1237 : Auger
- 1237–1266 : Pierre III. et Raymond de Saint-Martin
- 1266–1295 : Pierre IV. de Betous
- 1295–1307 : Martin
[edit] 1300-1500
- 1308–1326 : Bernard de Bats
- 1326–1327 : Anesanche de Toujouse
- 1327–1349 : Garsias de Fau
- 1349–15. November 1354 : Dauphin de Marquefave
- 1354 : Bernard
- 1361–end May 1386 : Jean de Montaut
- 4 June 1386–1390 : Robert Waldeby (nominated by Urban VI in Rome, also Archbishop of York and Archbishop of Dublin)
- 14. November 1390–1393 : Maurice Usk
- 1393–1418 : Arnaud-Guillaume de Lescun
- 1386–1397 : Garsias-Arnaud de Navailles (nominated by Avignon Pope Clement VII)
- 1397–1418 : Bernard de Brun
- 1423–1440 : Roger de Castelbon
- 1440–1445 : Pierre de Gachefret
- 16 January 1445 to 30 July 1460 : Louis d'Albret (administrator)
- 1460–1475 : Tristan d'Aure (also Bishop of Couserans)
- 1475–1484 : Pierre de Foix
- 1484–1485 : Mathieu de Nargassie
- 15 February 1486–1512 : Bernard d'Abbadie
[edit] 1500 to 1800
- 1512–1516 : Antoine du Monastey
- 1516–22. December 1521 : Arnaud-Guillaume d’Aydie
- 24. April 1523–1530 : Charles de Gramont
- 9. March 1530–6. February 1538 : Gabriel de Saluces
- 1538–1560 : Jacques de Saint-Julien
- 1560–4. September 1570 : Christophe de Foix-Candale
- 1576–5. February 1594 : François de Foix-Candale
- Vacant
- 4. December 1606–1621 : Cospéan
- 1621–17. January 1625 : Sébastien Bouthilier
- 1625–1649 : Gilles Boutault
- 1650–1657 : Charles-François de Bourlemont
- 1657–12. October 1672 - Bernard de Sariac
- 12. January 1673–18. December 1684 : Jean-Louis de Fromentières
- 1693–29. March 1698 : Armand Bazin de Bezons
- 1698–1706 : Louis-Gaston Fleuriau d’Armenonville
- 1706–30. June 1710 : François-Gaspard de la Mer de Matha
- 1710–1723 : Joseph-Gaspard de Montmorin de Saint-Hérem
- 1723–1734 : Gilbert de Montmorin de Saint-Hérem
- 1735–1757 : François de Sarret de Gaujac
- 1758–1783 : Playcard de Raigecourt
- 1783–1801 : Sébastien-Charles-Philibert de Cahuzac de Caux
[edit] From 1800
- 1823–1827 : Jean-François-Marie Le Pappe de Trévern (also Archbishop of Strasbourg)
- 1827–1839 : Dominique-Marie Savy
- 1839–30. June 1856 : François-Adélaïde-Adolphe Lanneluc
- 15. December 1856–6. June 1859 : Prosper-Mlichel-Armand Hiraboure
- 26. September 1859–23. July 1876 : Louis-Marie-Olivier Épivent
- 18. December 1876–7. August 1905 : Victor-Jean-Baptiste-Paulin Delannoy
- 21. February 1906–1911 : François Touzet
- 1911–1930 : Maurice Charles Alfred de Cormont
- 1930–1963 : Clément Mathieu
- 1963–1978 : Fernand Pierre Robert Bézac des Martinies
- 1978–2002 : Robert Pierre Sarrabère
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This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.