List of the bishops of La Rochelle
The following men were abbots of Maillezais Abbey or bishops of the Dioceses of Maillezais , La Rochelle and La Rochelle-Saintes ( France ):
Abbots of Maillezais
- Gausbert (around 990)
- Theodelin (approx. 1000-approx. 1045)
- Humbert (approx. 1045-1060)
- Goderan (1060-1074)
- Drogon (approx. 1075-1082)
- Geoffroi I. (1082-ca. 1100)
- Pierre (1100-ca. 1117)
- Thibaut-Francois (1130)
- Gaudin (1151)
- Guillaume I (1171)
- Guillaume II de Reyssia (1174)
- Clemens (around 1195)
- Etienne (1207-1215)
- Clemens (again) (1216)
- Guillaume III. le fort (1225)
- Renaud (approx. 1232-approx. 1240)
- Guillaume IV (1270)
- Raoul (1275)
- Geoffroy II. Povereau (approx. 1280-1317)
Bishops of Maillezais
- The abbot of Maillezais became abbot bishop in 1317 after the abbey became a diocese through John XXII. was raised.
- 1317-1333: Geoffroy Pouvreau
- 1334: Pierre de Vivonne
- 1336-1341: Geoffroy de Pons
- 1342-1359: Jean de Marconnay
- 1359-1380: Guy de Faye
- 1380-1382: Jean Rousseau
- 1382-1385: Pierre de Thury
- 1385-1419: Jean Le Masle
- 1419-1432: Guillaume de Lucé
- 1432-1455: Thibaut de Lucé
- 1455-1475: Louis Rouault
- 1478-1481: Jean D'Amboise
- 1481–1508: Cardinal Frédéric de Saint-Severin
- 1511 - approx. 1517: Cardinal Pietro de Accolti
- 1518: Cardinal Philip of Luxembourg
- 1518-1543: Geoffroi D'Estissac
- 1545 - approx. 1560: Jacques D'Escoubleau de Sourdis
- approx. 1563 – approx. 1568: Pierre de Pont-Levoy
- approx. 1570 – approx. 1615: Henri d'Escoubleau de Sourdis (the elder)
- 1623–1629: Henri d'Escoubleau de Sourdis (then Archbishop of Bordeaux)
- 1630–1646: Henry de Béthune (then Archbishop of Bordeaux)
- 1646-1648: Jacques Raoul
- Innocent X transfers the bishopric to La Rochelle .
Bishops of La Rochelle
- 1648–1661 Jacques Raoul de la Guibourgère
- 1661–1693 Henri Marie de Laval-Bois-Dauphin ( list of the Montmorency family )
- 1693–1702 Charles-Madeleine Frézeau de Frézelière
- 1702–1724 Etienne de Champflour
- 1725–1729 Jean-Baptiste de Brancas
- 1730–1767 Augustin Roch de Menou de Charnisai
- 1768–1789 François-Emmanuel de Crussol d'Uzès ( Crussol House )
- 1789-1801 (1816) Jean-Charles de Coucy
- April 9 to November 20, 1802 Michel-François de Couët du Vivier de Lorry
- 1802–1804 Jean-François Demandolx (also Bishop of Amiens)
- 1804–1826 Gabriel-Laurent Paillou (x)
- 1827–1835 Joseph Bernet (then Archbishop of Aix and Cardinal)
- 1835–1855 Cardinal Clément Villecourt
- 1856–1866 Jean-François Landriot (then Archbishop of Reims)
- 1867–1883 Léon-Benoit-Charles Thomas (then Archbishop of Rouen and Cardinal)
- 1884–1892 Etienne Ardin (then Archbishop of Sens)
- 1892–1901 François-Joseph-Edwin Bonnefoy (then Archbishop of Aix)
- 1901–1906 Émile Le Camus
- 1906–1923 Jean-Auguste Eyssautier
- 1923–1937 Eugène Curien
- 1938-1955 Louis Liagre
- 1955-1963 Xavier Morilleau
- 1963–1979 Félix-Marie-Honoré Verdet
- 1979–1983 François-Marie-Christian Favreau
- 1985–1996 Jacques Louis Antoine Marie David (then Bishop of Évreux)
- 1996–2006 Georges Paul Pontier (then Archbishop of Marseille)
- 2006-2016 Bernard Housset
- since 2016 Georges Colomb MEP
Web links
- List of bishops of La Rochelle ( Memento of February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )