Roman Catholic Diocese of Amiens

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Amiens (Lat:Dioecesis Ambianensis), is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises the department of Somme. The current bishop is Jean-Luc Marie Maurice Louis Bouilleret, appointed in 2003.

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History

It was a suffragan of the archdiocese of Reims during the old regime; of Paris, 1802 to 1822; and of Reims again, since 1822.

Louis Duchesne denies any value to the legend of two Saints Firmin, honoured on the first and twenty-fifth of September, as the first and third Bishops of Amiens. The legend is of the eight century and full of incoherences. Even on the supposition that a St. Firmin, native of Pampeluna, was martyred during the persecution of Diocletian, it is certain that the first bishop known to history is St. Eulogius, who defended the divinity of Christ in the councils held during the middle of the fourth century.

Bishops

Among the bishops of Amiens are counted:

Cathedral and churches

The cathedral (thirteenth century) is an admirable Gothic monument, and was made the subject of careful study by John Ruskin in his Bible of Amiens. The nave of this cathedral is considered a type of the ideal Gothic.

The church of St. Acheul, near Amiens, and formerly its cathedral, was, in the nineteenth century, the home of a major Jesuit novitiate. The beautiful churches of St. Ricquier and Corbie perpetuate the memory of the great Benedictine abbeys and homes of learning founded in these places in 570 and 662.

Ordinaries

To 1000

1000 to 1300

1300 to 1500

1500 to 1800

From 1800

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