Diocese of Périgueux

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The Diocese of Périgueux is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in France, centered in Périgueux, Aquitaine. The diocese comprises the département of Dordogne and is suffragan to the Archbishopric of Bordeaux.

The current Bishop is Michel Pierre Marie Mouïsse.

[edit] History

The Martyrology of Ado gives St. Front as the first Bishop of Périgueux; Saint Peter is said to have sent him to this town with the St. George to whom later traditions assign the foundation of the church of Le Puy. Subsequent biographies, which appeared between the 10th and 13th centuries, make St. Front's life one with that of St. Fronto of Nitria, thereby giving it an Egyptian colouring. At all events we know by the Chronicle of Sulpicius Severus that a Bishop of Périgueux, Paternus, was deposed for heresy about 361.

Among its bishops are:

The Abbey of Saint-Sauveur of Sarlat, later placed under the patronage of St. Sacerdos, Bishop of Limoges, seems to have existed before the reigns of Pepin the Short and Charlemagne who came there in pilgrimage and because of their munificence deserved to be called "founders" in a Bull of Pope Eugene III (1153). About 936 St. Odo, Abbot of Cluny, was sent to reform the abbey. The abbey was made an episcopal see by pope John XXII, on 13 January 1318.

[edit] Bishops

  • Saint Front
  • Agnan
  • Chronope I.
  • c. 356: Paterne
  • c. 380: Gavide
  • c. 410: Pégase
  • c. 506 to c. 533: Chronope II.
  • c. 540: Sabaude
  • c. 582: Chartier
  • c. 590: Saffaire
  • c. 629: Austier
  • c. 767 to c. 778: Bertrand
  • c. 805 to c. 811: Raimond I.
  • c. 844: Ainard
  • c. 900: Sébaude
  • 977–991: Frotaire
  • 992–1000: Martin
  • 1000–1009: Rodolphe de Coué
  • 1010–1036 or 1037: Arnaud de Vitabre
  • c. 1037–1059: Géraud de Gourdon
  • 1060–1081: Guillaume I. de Montberon
  • 1081–1099: Renaud de Tivier
  • 1100–1101: Raimond II.
  • 1102–1129: Guillaume II. d'Auberoche
  • 1130–1138: Guillaume III. de Nanclars
  • 1138–1142: Geoffroi I. de Cauze
  • 1142–1147: Pierre I.
  • 1148–1158: Raimond III. de Mareuil
  • 1160–1169: Jean I. d'Assida
  • 1169–1182: Pierre II. Minet
  • 1185–1197: Adhémar I. de La Torre
  • 1197–1210: Raimond IV. de Châteauneuf
  • 1210–1220: Raoul I. de Lastours de Laron
  • 1220–1233: Cardinal Raimond de Pons
  • 1234–1266: Pierre III. de Saint-Astier
  • 1267 to c. 1280: Elie I. Pilet
  • c. 1282 to c. 1295: Raimond VI. d'Auberoche
  • 1297 to c. 1312: Audouin
  • 1314–1331: Raimond VII.
  • 1332–1333: Giraud
  • 1333–1335: Pierre IV.
  • 1336–1340: Raimond VIII.
  • 1340 to c. 1346: Guillaume IV. Audibert
  • 1347–1348: Adhémar II.
  • 1349 to c. 1382: Pierre V. Pin
  • 1384–1385: Elie II. Servient
  • 1387 to c. 1400: Pierre VI. de Durfort
  • c. 1402: Guillaume V. Lefèvre
  • c. 1405: Gabriel I.
  • 1407–1408: Raimond IX. de Castelnau
  • 1408 to c. 1430: Jean II.
  • 1431 to c. 1436: Berenger
  • 1437–1438: Elie III.
  • 1438–1439: Pierre VII. de Durfort
  • 1440–1441: Raimond X.
  • 1441 to c. 1446: Geoffroi II. Bérenger d'Arpajon
  • 1447–1463: Elie IV. de Bourdeille
  • 1463–1470: Raoul II. du Fou (also Bishop of Angoulême)
  • 1470–1485: Geoffroi III. de Pompadour (also Bishop of Angoulême)
  • 1486–1500: Gabriel II. du Mas
  • 1500–1504: Geoffroi III. de Pompadour
  • 1504 to c. 1510: Jean III. Auriens
  • 1510–1522: Gui I. de Castelnau
  • 1522–1524: Jacques de Castelnau
  • 1524–1532: Jean de Plas
  • 1532–1540: Foucaud de Bonneval
  • 1540–1541: Claude de Longwy, Cardinal de Givry[1]
  • 1541-1547 Agostino Trivulzio, administrator[2]
  • 1548–1550: Jean de Lustrac
  • 1551–1552: Geoffroi de Pompadour
  • 1554–1560: Gui II. Bouchard d'Aubeterre
  • 1561–1575: Pierre VIII. Fournier
  • 1578–1600: François I. de Bourdeille
  • 1600–1612: Jean VI. Martin
  • 1614–1646: François II. de La Béraudière
  • 1646: Jean VII. d'Estrades
  • 1646–1652: Philibert de Brandon
  • 1654–1665: Cyr de Villers-la-Faye
  • 1666–1693: Guillaume VI. Le Roux
  • 1693–1702: Daniel de Francheville
  • 1702–1719: Pierre IX. Clément
  • 1721–1731: Michel-Pierre d'Argouges
  • 1731–1771: Jean VIII. Chrétien de Macheco de Prémeaux
  • 1771–1773: Gabriel III. Louis de Rougé
  • 1773–1790: Emmanuel-Louis de Grossoles de Flamarens
  • 1791–1793: Pontaud
  • 1817–1836: Alexandre-Charles-Louis-Rose de Lostanges-Saint-Alvère
  • 1835–1840: Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset (also Archbishop of Reims)
  • 1840–1860: Jean-Baptiste-Amédée Georges-Massonnais
  • 1861–1863: Charles-Théodore Baudry
  • 1863–1901: Nicolas-Joseph Dabert
  • 1901–1906: François-Marie-Joseph Delamaire
  • 1906–1915: Henri-Louis-Prosper Bougoin
  • 1915–1920: Maurice-Louis-Marie Rivière
  • 1920–1931: Christophe-Louis Légasse
  • 1932–1965: Georges-Auguste Louis
  • 1965–1988: Jacques-Julien-Émile Patria
  • 1988–2004: Gaston Élie Poulain, P.S.S.
  • 2004–present: Michel Pierre Marie Mouïsse

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of November 7, 1533
  2. ^ The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of July 1, 1517