Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges
| Archdiocese of Bourges Archidioecesis Bituricensis Archidiocèse de Bourges | |
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| Location | |
| Country | France |
| Ecclesiastical province | Tours |
| Metropolitan | Archdiocese of Tours |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 14,210 km2 (5,490 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2012) 549,900 502,700 (91.4%) |
| Parishes | 64 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 3rd Century |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of St Stephen in Bourges |
| Patron saint | St Ursinus of Bourges |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Archbishop | Armand Maillard |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin |
| Emeritus Bishops |
Hubert Barbier Archbishop Emeritus (2000-2007) Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau Archbishop Emeritus (1984-2000) |
| Website | |
| Website of the Archdiocese | |
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bourges is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The Archdiocese comprises the departements of Cher and Indre in the Region of Val de Loire.
Since 2002 it has lost its metropolitical function (and thus the archbishop no longer wears the pallium), its province having ceased to exist(the province had already been substantially modified from the late Roman province of Aquitania Prima with which it had initially corresponded - Albi had been erected as an archbishopric in the medieval context of heresiological conflict; Orleans, Chartres and Blois historically dependent on Sens had been attached to Paris, from which they passed to Bourges in the 1960s). The Archdiocese (also the three above- mentioned sees) is now suffragan to the Archdiocese of Tours; other dioceses until recently dependent on Bourges are now suffragans of the Clermont-Ferrand Archdiocese. Historical ecclesiastical geography has here thus been modified to correspond with France's new regions, much as diocesan and provincial boundaries from Napoleon's Concordat onwards were shaped mainly in accordance with those of the Revolution's Départements.
From 2000 it was led by Archbishop Hubert Barbier, but his resignation was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI on September 11, 2007, making him Archbishop Emeritus. His successor as Archbishop-elect is Bishop Armand Maillard of the Diocese of Laval.
History
The diocese was founded in the 3rd century. Its first bishop was St. Ursinus of Bourges. In the Middle Ages there was a dispute between the bishop of Bourges and the bishop of Bordeaux about the primacy of Aquitaine. Bourges was the place of many synods. The synods 1225 and 1226 are the most important and dealt with the Albigenses.
To 1000
- St. Ursinus of Bourges (3rd century)
- Sevitianus
- Aetherius
- Thecretus
- Marcellus (all prior to 337)
- Palladius (377-384)
- Leo (453)
- Simplicius (472-480)
- Arcadius of Bourges
- Honoratus of Bourges (pres. Council of Clermont (535))
- Desideratus (541-550)
- Probianus
- Felix of Bourges
- Remedius (all in the second half of the sixth century)
- Sulpitius I of Bourges (584-591)
- Austregisilus (612-624)
- Sulpicius II. of Bourges (624-644)
- David (793-802)
- Agilulfus (c. 820-840)
- Raoul of Turenne 840-866
- Wulfad 866-876[1]
- Frotharius (876-c.893)
- Hugh of Blois (969-985)[2]
- Dagbert (987-1013)[2]
From 1000
- Gauzlin Capet (1013–1030)[2]
- Alberich of Reims (1136–1141)
- Henry de Sully (d. 1200)
- William of Donjeon (1200–09)
- Girard de Cros 1209-1218
- Simon de Sully 1218-1232
- Philippe Berruyer 1232-1260
- Jean de Sully 1260-1271
- Guy de Sully 1276-1280
- Simon de Beaulieu 1281-1294
- Gilles de Rome 1295-1316
- Renault de la Porte 1316-1320
- Guillaume de Brosse 1321-1331
- Foucaud de Rochechouard 1331-1343
- Blessed Roger le Fort 1343-1367
- Pierre d'Estaing 1367-1370
- Pierre de Cros 1370-1374, became Archbishop of Arles, and cardinal
- Bertrand de Chenac 1374-1386
- Jean de Rochechouart 1386-1390
- Pierre Aimery 1391-1409
- Guillaume de Boisratier 1409-1421
- Henry d'Avangour 1421-1446
- Jean Coeur 1446-1483
- Pierre Cadoüet 1483-1492
- Guillaume de Cambray 1492-1505
- Michel de Bucy 1505-1511
- Andrew Forman 1513
- François de Tournon
- Renaud de Beaune 1581
- André Fremiot
- Michel Phélypeaux de La Vrillière, 1677–1694[3]
- Georges-Louis Phélypeaux d'Herbault, 1757-1787
- Jean-Antoine-Auguste de Chastenet de Puységur (1788-1802)
- Marie-Charles-Isidore de Mercy (1802–1811)
- Etienne-Jean-Baptiste des Galois de la Tour (1817-1820)
- Jean-Marie Cliquet de Fontenay (1820-1834)
- Guillaume-Aubin de Villèle (1825-1841)
- Jacques-Marie-Antoine-Célestin du Pont (1842-1859)
- Alexis-Basile-Alexandre Menjaud (1859-1861)
- Charles-Amable de la Tour d’Auvergne Lauraguais (1861-1879)
- Jean-Joseph Marchal (1880-1892)
- Jean-Pierre Boyer (1893-1896)
- Pierre-Paul Servonnet (1897-1909)
- Louis-Ernest Dubois (1909-1916)
- Martin-Jérôme Izart (1916-1934)
- Louis-Joseph Fillon (1934-1943)
- Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre (1943-1969)
- Charles-Marie-Paul Vignancour (1969-1984)
- Pierre Marie Léon Augustin Plateau (1984-2000)
- Hubert Barbier (2000–2007)
- Armand Maillard (2007-)
Notes
- ↑ Thomas Bauer (1998). "Wulfad, Erzbischof von Bourges". In Bautz, Traugott. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German) 14. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 168–170. ISBN 3-88309-073-5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Devailly, Guy (1973). Le diocèse de Bourges (in French). Paris: Letouzey & Ane. p. 247. OCLC 815696.
Hugues de Blois 969-985
- ↑ Entry 394 in Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques publiques de France, vol. 4, p. 94. Paris: Plon, 1886 (at Google Books). Michel Phélypeaux de La Vrillière (1642–1694), VIAF.