Diocese of Mende
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The Catholic Diocese of Mende (Mimatensis) covers the department of Lozère, in France.
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 a suffragan of Albi. It has its seat at Mende Cathedral.
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[edit] List of bishops
[edit] Pre-Revolutionary (selected only)
- Giuliano della Rovere 1478-1479 (appointed Bishop of Sabina)
- Gabriel-Florent de Choiseul-Beaupré 1723-1767
[edit] 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)
