Roman Catholic Diocese of Gap

Diocese of Gap-Embrun
Dioecesis Vapincensis-Ebrodunensis
Diocèse de Gap-Embrun

Location
Country France
Ecclesiastical province Marseille
Metropolitan Archdiocese of Marseille
Statistics
Area 5,653 km2 (2,183 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		 (as of 2006)
126,800
114,000 (89.9%)
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Rite Roman Rite
Established 5th Century
Cathedral Cathedral of Notre-Dame and Saint Arnoux in Gap
Current leadership
Pope Francis
Bishop Jean-Michel di Falco Léandri
Metropolitan Archbishop Georges Pontier
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Gap, is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The episcopal see is Gap Cathedral, in the city of Gap, in the department of Hautes Alpes. The diocese is suffragan to the archdiocese of Marseille.

The current titular is Jean-Michel di Falco.[1]

History

Ancient traditions in liturgical books, of which at least one dates from the fourteenth century, state that the first Bishop of Gap was St. Demetrius, disciple of the Apostles and martyrs. Victor de Buck in the Acta Sanctorum (October, XI) finds nothing inadmissible in these traditions, while Canon Albanès defends them against M. Roman. Albanès names as bishops of Gap the martyr St. Tigris (fourth century), then St. Remedius (394-419), whom Louis Duchesne makes a Bishop of Antibes and who was involved in the struggle between Pope Zosimus and Bishop Proculus of Marseilles, finally St. Constantinus, about 439. According to Duchesne the first historically known bishop is Constantinus, present at the Council of Epaone in 517. The church of Gap had, among other bishops, St. Aregius (or St. Arey, 579-610?), who established at Gap a celebrated literary school and was held in great esteem by St. Gregory the Great; also St. Arnoude (1065–1078), a monk of Trinité de Vendôme, named bishop by pope Alexander II to replace the simoniac Ripert, and who became the patron of the episcopal city.

Suppressed by the Concordat of 1801 and then united to the diocese of Digne, this diocese was re-established in 1822 comprising, besides the ancient diocese of Gap, a large part of the ancient archdiocese of Embrun.[2] The name of this last metropolitan see, however, had been absorbed in the title of the Archbishop of Aix until 2007. In 2008, the title was reattached to the diocese of Gap by the pope.[3]

Bishops

To 1000

1000 to 1300

1300 to 1500

1500 to 1800

From 1800

References

  1. ↑ "Diocese of Gap". catholic-hierarchy.org.
  2. ↑ "Gap". Catholic Encyclopedia.
  3. ↑ Papal bull on the Diocese of Gap website

Coordinates: 44°33′29″N 6°04′41″E / 44.5581°N 6.0781°E