Ancient Diocese of Lisieux

The Diocese of Lisieux was a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in France, centered on Lisieux, in Calvados.

The bishop of Lisieux was the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lisieux. The first known Bishop of Lisieux is one Theodibandes, mentioned in connexion with a council held in 538.

The bishopric was suppressed during the French revolution and was not reinstated. Present day Lisieux is part of the Diocese of Bayeux.

List of bishops

To 1000

1000 to 1300

1300 to 1500

From 1500

Notes

  1. 1 2 Spear "The Norman Empire and the Secular Clergy" Journal of British Studies p. 5
  2. Schriber The Dilemma of Arnulf of Lisieux p. 26-27

References

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