Ancient Diocese of Sisteron

The former French diocese of Sisteron existed until the French Revolution. Its see was at Sisteron in southern France, in the modern department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

After the Concordat of 1801, its territory passed to the diocese of Digne^[1].

Bishops

• Chrysaphius (449–452)
• Johannes I (500–516 ?)
• Valère (517)
• Avole (541–554)
• Genès (573)
• Pologronius (584–585)
• Secondin I (614)
• Johannes II (812–860)
• Viventius (ninth century)
• Magnibert (ninth century)
• Amantius (ninth century)
• Secondin II. (ninth century)
• Virmagne (ninth century)
• Bon (867)
• Vincent (end of ninth century)
• Eustorge (tenth century)
• Arnulphe (925 ?)
• Johann III. (930–965 ?)
• Ours (967)
• Rudolf I. (981)
• Frodon (999–1015)
• Durand (1015 ?–1020)
• Pierre I. (1023–1043) (brother of Feraud, bishop of Gap)
• Géraud ? (1031 ?–1045 ?)
• Pierre II. (1043) (then bishop of Vaison, nephew of Pierre .)
• Gérard I. Chevrier (1060–1080 ?)
• Carl (1082)
• Nitard (end of eleventh century)
• Bertrand I. (1102–1105 ?)
• Gérard II. (1110–1124)
• Raimbaud (1125 ?–1145)
• Pierre de Sabran (1145–1171)
• Bertrand II. (1172-1174)
• Bermond d'Anduse (1174–1214)
• Rodolphe II. (1216–1241)
• Henri de Suze (1244–1250) (then archbishop of Embrun)
• Humbert Fallavel (1250–1256)
• Alain de Lusarches (1257–1277)
• Pierre Giraud (1277–1291)
• Pierre d'Alamanon (1292–1304)
• Jacques Gantelmi (1306–1310)
• Raimond d'Oppède (1310–1328)
• Rostan I. (1328–1348)
• Pierre Artaudi (1349–1360)
• Gérard III. (1362–1369)
• Ranulphe de Gorze (1370–1382)
• Artaud de Mélan (1382–1404)
• Antoine de Viale (1383–1386) (installed by Pope Urban VI)
• Nicolas Sacosta (1404–1414)
• Robert du Four (1414–1437)
• Mitre Gastinel (1437–1440)
• Raimond Ralon (1437)
• Gaucher de Forcalquier (1440–1442)
• Charles de Borna (1442–1456)
• Jacques Radulphi (1456–1463)
• André de Plaisance (1463–1477)
• Jean Esquenart (1477–1492)
• Thibaud de la Tour d'Auvergne (1493–1499)
• Laurent Bureau (1499–1504)
• Pierre Filholi (1504–1506) (then archbishop of Aix)
• François de Dinteville (1506–1514) (then bishop of Auxerre)
• Claude de Louvain (1514–1520) (also bishop of Soissons, Abbot of Saint-Jean d'Amiens and Saint-Pierre de Bèze)
• Michel de Savoie (1520–1522) (then bishop of Beauvais)
• Claude d'Aussonville (1523–1531)
• Antoine de Narbonne (1531–1541)
• Albin de Rochechouard (1542–1543)
• Émeric de Rochechouard (1543–1580) (brother of predecessor)
• Antoine de Couppes (1582–1606)
• Toussaint de Glandevès (1606–1648)
• Antoine d'Arbaud (1648–1666)
• Michel Poncet (1667–1675) (then archbishop of Bourges)
• Jacques Potier (1677–1681) (then bishop of Évreux)
• Louis de Thomassin (1682–1718)
• Pierre-François Lafitau (1720–1764)
• Louis-Jérôme de Suffren (1764–1789) (brother of Pierre André de Suffren, bishop of Nevers)
• François de Bovet (1789–1801)

Notes

1. ^ Diocese of Sisteron, France