Archdiocese of Cambrai
| Archdiocese of Cambrai | |
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| Country | France |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Lille |
| Diocesan bishop | Vincent Dollmann |
| surface | 3,420 km² |
| Parishes | 355 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 1,031,314 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 933,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 90.5% |
| Diocesan priest | 147 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 13 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 5,831 |
| Permanent deacons | 46 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 13 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 241 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | French |
| cathedral | Notre-Dame de Grace |
| address | Archeveche 30 rue de Noyon BP 149 59403 Cambrai CEDEX France |
| Website | www.cathocambrai.com |
The Archdiocese of Cambrai ( Latin Archidioecesis Cameracensis , French Archidiocèse de Cambrai ) is a bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church in northern France with its seat in Cambrai .
history
In 580 the bishopric was established by relocating and renaming the diocese of Arras . It was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Reims . The church parish was extensive and extended to Brussels and Antwerp .
After the Frankish division of the empire in 936, Cambrai and the Middle Kingdom fell to Eastern Franconia , later the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation . In 1007 the bishops of Cambrai and the county of Cambrai became feudal men of the Roman-German kings and emperors. Her secular domain was the bishopric of Cambrai .
In 1559, the reorganization of the dioceses in what was then the Spanish Netherlands (which includes today's Netherlands , Belgium and northern France) took place at the instigation of Philip II . The Flemish parts of the diocese were spun off into the newly founded diocese of Ghent . In return, Cambrai was raised to an archbishopric with the suffragan dioceses of Saint-Omer , Tournai and Namur .
In 1678 Cambrai fell to France after the Franco-Dutch War , as did the Artois with Saint-Omer . Tournai and Namur, however, stayed with the Spanish Netherlands .
1802 saw the secularization of the diocese in the course of the French Revolution , the old cathedral was destroyed and its function was transferred to the former abbey church of Saint-Sépulcre and the diocese was rebuilt as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Paris with a simultaneous expansion by parts of the ( former) dioceses of Tournai , Ypres and Saint-Omer .
In 1841 there was another elevation to the archbishopric with Arras as a suffragan and in 1913 the re-establishment of the diocese of Lille on parts of the diocese of Cambrai and subordinate to Cambrai.
