Senez

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Coordinates: 43°54′52″N 6°24′28″E / 43.9144444444, 6.40777777778

Commune of Senez
Location
Senez (France)
Senez
Administration
Country France
Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Arrondissement Digne-les-Bains
Canton Barrême
Intercommunality Moyen Verdon
Mayor Gabriel Hermelin
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation 748 m–1,720 m
(avg. 780 m)
Land area¹ 70.27 km²
Population²
(1999)		 145
 - Density 2/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 04204/ 04330
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.
France

Senez is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence département in southeastern France.

[edit] Ecclesiastical history

Marcellus I, the first known bishop of Senez, attended the Council of Agde in 506; nevertheless, Senez must have been an episcopal city as early as 439.

Jean IV Soanen, the Oratorian, noted for his opposition to the Bull "Unigenitus", was Bishop of Senez from 1696 until the time of his deposition in 1727.

By the Concordat of 1801, the diocese of Digne was made to include the two departments of the Hautes-Alpes and Basses Alpes, in addition to the former diocese of Digne, the archdiocese of Embrun, the dioceses of Gap, Sisteron and Senez, a very considerable part of the diocese of Glandèves and diocese of Riez, and fourteen parishes in the Archdiocese of Aix and the Diocese of Apt.

In 1822 Gap was made an episcopal see and, thus divested of the department of the Hautes Alpes, the present diocese of Digne covers the territory formerly included in the dioceses of Digne, Senez, Glandèves, Riez, and Sisteron.

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