Diocese of Angoulême

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Diocese of Angoulême
Map of the diocese of Angoulême
Basic data
Country France
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Poitiers
Diocesan bishop Hervé Gosselin
Emeritus diocesan bishop Claude Dagens
Vicar General Guy Rougerie
Pierre Marie Robert
surface 5,956 km²
Parishes 47 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Residents 367,500 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics 276,000 (2015 / AP 2016 )
proportion of 75.1%
Diocesan priest 61 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious priest 14 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics per priest 3,680
Permanent deacons 11 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Friars 17 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious sisters 144 (2015 / AP 2016 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral Cathédrale Saint-Pierre
Website www.angouleme.catholique.fr
Ecclesiastical province
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Angoulême ( Latin Dioecesis Engolismensis , French Diocèse d'Angoulême ) is an in France situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Angoulême . It includes the Charente department .

history

The first known bishop of the Angoulême diocese was probably St. Ausonius , who, according to Gregory of Tours, lived around the middle of the 3rd century AD; the historian Robert Favreau, however, considers it more likely to date Ausonius into the 4th century. Only the hermit Cybard († 581) established the fame of the diocese. The monastery named after him, which is closely connected to the diocese, was built between 817 and 838.

Instead of a previous building burned by the Normans , the Saint-Pierre Cathedral , seat of the Angoulême diocese, was built in the early 11th century and consecrated in 1017. At that time, Bishop Grimoard von Mussidan (991-1018) was at the head of the diocese, who practiced simony like other bishops of Angoulême in the 10th century (including Gérard de Mallart , 1037-1043; Guillaume Taillefer , 1043-1076; Adémar Taillefer , 1076-1101). In the first half of the 11th century, the French chronicler Ademar von Chabannes was a monk in the monastery of Saint-Cybard. A final diocesan organization was created by Bishop Girard de Blaie (1102–1136), who among other things founded new parishes, built the bishop's palace and ordered an expansion of the cathedral. In 1122 a famous and rich Benedictine abbey was founded, the ruins of which are at Couronne near Angoulême. The Livre des fiefs , written by Bishop Guillaume de Blaye (1273-1307), lists the temporal possessions of the Church of Angoulême. A reduction in the scope of the church property occurred as a result of the conflicts between the Counts of Angoulême with the Plantagenêt and the French kings. The bishop Octavien de Saint-Gelais (1494–1502) was also a poet.

After the French Revolution , the Angoulême diocese was abolished in 1793, but re-established in 1801. On November 29, 1801 parts of the areas of the dioceses of Périgueux , Saintes and Sarlat were annexed to him. On October 6, 1822, it gave up parts of its territory to establish the diocese of Périgueux. For a long time it had been subordinate to the Archdiocese of Bordeaux as a suffragan ; on December 8, 2002 it became a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Poitiers .

See also

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Robert Favreau: évêques d'Angoulême et Saintes avant 1200 , in: Revue historique du Center-Ouest 9, No. 1 (2010), p. 9.
  2. ↑ a b c Ch. Higounet: Angoulême, diocese . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 638 f.
  3. ^ A b Georges Goyau: Angoulême, Diocese of , in: Catholic Encyclopedia , 1st edition, Vol. 1 (1907), p. 513.
  4. ↑ Entry on the diocese of Angoulême on catholic-hierarchy.org
Saint Pierre Cathedral in Angoulême