Roman Catholic Diocese of Chartres

Diocese of Chartres
Dioecesis Carnutensis
Diocèse de Chartres

Location
Country France
Ecclesiastical province Tours
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tours
Statistics
Area 5,939 km2 (2,293 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2006)
409,600
287,000 (70.1%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 3rd Century
Cathedral Cathedral Basilica of Notre Dame in Chartres
Patron saint Assumption of Mary
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Michel Pansard
Metropolitan Archbishop Bernard-Nicolas Jean-Marie Aubertin
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chartres is a Roman Catholic Latin Rite diocese in France.[1][2]

The diocese is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Tours.[3]

Pilgrimages

Chartres has been a site of Christian pilgrimage since the Middle Ages. The poet Charles Péguy (1873–1914) revived the pilgrimage route between Paris and Chartres before the First World War. After the war, some students carried on the pilgrimage in his memory. Since the 1980s, the association Notre-Dame de Chrétienté,[4] with offices in Versailles, has organized the annual 100-km pilgrimage on foot from the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris to the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Chartres. About 15,000 pilgrims, mostly young families from all over France, participate every year.

Bishops

To 1000

1000 to 1300

1300 to 1500

1500 to 1800

Bishop Michel Pansard

From 1800

References

  1. Diocese of Chartres - Catholic Encyclopedia article
  2. Official diocese website
  3. Diocese of Chartres from catholic-hierarchy.org/
  4. Notre-Dame de Chrétienté - English language site
  5. The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of August 9, 1520

Coordinates: 48°26′51″N 1°29′23″E / 48.44750°N 1.48972°E