Diocese of La Rochelle-Saintes

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Diocese of La Rochelle-Saintes
Map of the Diocese of La Rochelle-Saintes
Basic data
Country France
Metropolitan bishopric Archdiocese of Poitiers
Diocesan bishop Georges Colomb MEP
Emeritus diocesan bishop Bernard Housset
founding 1852
surface 7,106 km²
Parishes 46 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Residents 646,988 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics 405,900 (2016 / AP 2017 )
proportion of 62.7%
Diocesan priest 73 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious priest 22 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Catholics per priest 4,273
Permanent deacons 26 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Friars 22 (2016 / AP 2017 )
Religious sisters 104 (2016 / AP 2017 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral Cathédrale Saint-Louis in La Rochelle
Co-cathedral Co-cathédrale Saint-Pierre in Saintes
Website www.catholique-larochelle.cef.fr
Ecclesiastical province
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The Diocese of La Rochelle-Saintes ( Latin Dioecesis Rupellensis-santonensis , French Diocèse de La Rochelle et Saintes ) is an in France situated Roman Catholic diocese , based in La Rochelle .

history

Pope John XXII. 1317 elevated Maillezais Abbey and its area of ​​influence to a diocese, the abbot became an abbot-bishop and the abbey church became a cathedral. Pope Innocent X moved the diocese on May 4, 1648 with the Apostolic Constitution In supereminenti in the city of La Rochelle, which had long been a stronghold of the Huguenots , and subordinated it to the Archdiocese of Bordeaux as a suffragan . In 1790, the civil constitution of the clergy merged the dioceses of La Rochelle and Saintes to form the diocese of Charente-Inférieure , which was under the Constitutional Church . On November 29, 1801, the diocese of La Rochelle-Saintes was re-established as a result of the Concordate of 1801 by Pope Pius VII with the papal bull Qui Christi Domini . In addition to the diocese of La Rochelle, it also included parts of the old dioceses of Saintes and Luçon . The latter, however, was re-established on October 6, 1822, so that the diocese of La Rochelle-Saintes corresponded to the area of the Charente-Maritime department (until 1941 Charente-Inférieure ). On December 16, 2002 it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Poitiers as a suffragan.

On March 1, 2018, the territory of the repealed Vicariate Apostolic Saint-Pierre and Miquelon in the French overseas territories was incorporated into the diocese.

See also

Web links

Commons : Diocese of La Rochelle-Saintes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rinuncia del Vicario Apostolico di Iles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon e accorpamento del Vicariato nella Diocesi di La Rochelle (Francia). In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , March 1, 2018, accessed March 1, 2018 (Italian).
Saint Louis Cathedral in La Rochelle
Saint Pierre Co-cathedral in Saintes