Diocese of Gap

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The Diocese of Gap is a Roman Catholic territory in south-eastern France. The episcopal see is Gap Cathedral, in Gap, Hautes Alpes. The diocese is suffragan to the archdiocese of Marseille.

The current titular is Jean-Michel di Falco.[1]

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[edit] History

Ancient traditions in liturgical books, of which at least one dates from the fourteenth century, state that the first Bishop of Gap was St. Demetrius, disciple of the Apostles and martyrs. Father Victor de Buck in the Acta Sanctorum (October, XI) finds nothing inadmissible in these traditions, while Canon Albanès defends them against M. Roman. Albanès names as bishops of Gap the martyr St. Tigris (fourth century), then St. Remedius (394-419), whom Louis Duchesne makes a Bishop of Antibes and who was involved in the struggle between Pope Zosimus and Bishop Proculus of Marseilles, finally St. Constantinus, about 439. According to Duchesne the first historically known bishop is Constantinus, present at the Council of Epaone in 517. The church of Gap had, among other bishops, St. Aregius (or St. Arey, 579-610?), who established at Gap a celebrated literary school and was held in great esteem by St. Gregory the Great; also St. Arnoude (1065-1078), a monk of Trinité de Vendôme, named bishop by pope Alexander II to replace the simoniac Ripert, and who became the patron of the episcopal city.

Suppressed by the Concordat of 1801 and then united to Digne, this diocese was re-established in 1822 comprising, besides the ancient diocese of Gap, a large part of the ancient archdiocese of Embrun.[2] The name of this last metropolitan see, however, had been absorbed in the title of the Archbishop of Aix until 2007. In 2008, the title was reattached to the diocese of Gap by the pope.[3]

[edit] Bishops

[edit] To 1000

  • Saint Démèter (end of first century)
  • Saint Tigride (fourth century)
  • Saint Remède (394-419)
  • Saint Constantin (439)
  • Constance (517-529)
  • Vellesius (541-554)
  • Sagittaire (560 ?-578)
  • Saint Arey (579-610 ?)
  • Valaton (610 ?-614)
  • Potentissime (650 ?)
  • Symphorien (700 ?)
  • Donadieu (788)
  • Biraco (879-879)
  • Castus (950)
  • Hugues I (971-1010 ?)

[edit] 1000 to 1300

[edit] 1300 to 1500

[edit] 1500 to 1800

[edit] From 1800

  • François-Antoine Arbaud 1823-1836
  • Nicolas-Augustin de la Croix D`Azolette 1837-1840
  • Louis Rossat 1841-1844
  • Jean-Irénée Depéry 1844-1861
  • Victor-Félix Bernadou 1862-1867
  • Aimé-Victor-François Guilbert 1867-1879
  • Jean-Baptiste Jacquenet 1881-1884
  • L.-Jo.-J.-Bapt.-Léon Gouzot 1884-1887, transf p/Auch en 1887
  • Jean-Alphonse Blanchet 1887-1888
  • Prosper Amable Berthet 1889-1914
  • Gabriel-Roch de Llobet 1915-1925, transf p/Avignon come coadjutour en 1925.
  • Jules-Géraud Saliège 1925-1928, transf p/Toulouse en 1928
  • Camille Pic 1928-1932, transf p/Valence en 1932
  • Auguste-Callixte-Jean Bonnabel 1932-1961, retiré en 1961
  • Georges Jacquot 1961-1966,transf. p/Marseille en 1966
  • Robert-Joseph Coffy 1967-1974, transf.p/Albi en 1974
  • Pierre-Bertrand Chagué 1975-1980
  • Raymond-Gaston-Jo. Séguy 1981-1987, transf p/Autun en 1987
  • Georges Lagrange 1988-2003, resigné en 2003
  • Jean-Michel di Falco 2003-

[edit] References

  1. ^ Diocese of Gap. catholic-hierarchy.org.
  2. ^ Gap. Catholic Encyclopedia.
  3. ^ Papal bull on the Diocese of Gap website
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