Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Friborg

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Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Friborg
Map of the bishopric of Lausanne, Geneva and Friborg
Basic data
Country Switzerland
Ecclesiastical province Immediate
Diocesan bishop Charles Morerod OP
Auxiliary bishop Alain de Raemy
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Pierre Farine
Vicar General Remy Berchier
founding 1821
surface 5,557 km²
Vicariates 4 (December 2, 2008)
Dean's offices 20 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Parishes 255 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Residents 1,619,000 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Catholics 703,000 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
proportion of 43.4%
Diocesan priest 269 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Religious priest 239 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Catholics per priest 1,384
Permanent deacons 25 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Friars 430 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
Religious sisters 755 (December 31, 2011 / AP 2013 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French , German
cathedral Saint Nicholas
address CP 217
86 rue de Lausanne
CH-1701 Friborg
Website www.diocese-lgf.ch
Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Friborg
Development of membership numbers

The diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Friborg ( Latin: Dioecesis Lausannensis, Genevensis, et Friburgensis ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland .

The diocese extends over the territory of the cantons of Friborg , Geneva , Neuchâtel and Vaud , in the latter canton excluding the parishes in the district of Aigle that belong to the diocese of Sion except for those of Villeneuve VD . It was created in 1821 from the merger of the territories of the dioceses of Geneva and Lausanne located on the territory of the Swiss Confederation .

history

Two origins

The former diocese of Geneva

The origins of the diocese of Geneva go back to the 4th century. The diocese was initially part of the ecclesiastical province of Vienne . In the Middle Ages, St. Peter's Cathedral was built as a bishop's church.

After the Reformation under John Calvin , Bishop Ange Justiniani settled in Annecy in 1569 . His best-known successor was Francis von Sales from 1602 to 1622 , whose sermons held between 1594 and 1597, together with the preaching activities of the Capuchins, led to the recatholization of Chablais, who had been ceded by the Bernese to the Duke of Savoy in the Treaty of Lausanne in 1564 .

In the course of the reorganization of the French Church under Pope Pius VII (see Concordat of 1801 ), the title of Bishop of Geneva was transferred to the Bishop of Chambéry in 1801 , but in 1815 it passed to the Bishop of Lausanne. The French parts of the diocese were combined in 1822 in the newly established diocese of Annecy .

The former diocese of Lausanne

Towards the end of the 5th century, Marius von Avenches , Bishop of Aventicum , moved his bishopric from Aventicum (Avenches) to Lausanne . The episcopal church of the diocese of Lausanne (lat. Dioecesis Lausannens ) was the Notre-Dame cathedral . The area of ​​the diocese originally extended over today's cantons of Vaud (east of the Aubonne river), Neuchâtel , Friborg and Bern (with the exception of the Haslital ) as well as parts of today's canton of Solothurn (Landvogtei Lebern). In addition, the parishes of Jougne , Les Hôpitaux , Les Longevilles and Métabief belonged to the diocese, which are now in the French Doubs department and have been under the Archdiocese of Besançon since 1801 . The border to the diocese of Constance was marked by the Aare . The diocese was initially under the supervision of the Archbishops of Lyon and later under that of the Archbishops of Besançon . A lengthy process for the diocese was carried out at the Council of Basel .

After the Reformation was introduced in 1536, the last Lausanne bishop, Sébastien de Montfalcon , fled to Savoy . The population remained Catholic only in the bailiwick of Echallens , administered by Bern and Friborg , in the entire area of ​​today's canton of Friborg , in the places Cressier and Le Landeron at the southwest end of Lake Biel and in the Solothurn bailiff of Lebern. In 1615, Bishop Jean Charles de Watteville managed to allow the bishops to settle in Freiburg in Üechtland , but they did not move into permanent residence there until 1663. As a result, tensions arose there with the canons of the Collegiate Monastery of St. Nicholas and with the Freiburg authorities.

The creation of today's diocese

In 1815, the Republic of Geneva , expanded to include eighteen mostly Catholic parishes in the Pays de Gex and Savoy , became a Swiss canton , and in 1819 its territory was ecclesiastically administered by the Bishop of Lausanne. In 1821 the diocese was given the new name "Diocèse de Lausanne et Genève". In 1828 and 1864 the areas in the cantons of Solothurn and Bern , which until then had belonged to the diocese of Lausanne, were transferred to the diocese of Basel , which was newly circumscribed in 1828 .

In the last decades of the 19th century, the canton of Friborg became more and more the center of Catholicism in western Switzerland - this can be seen, for example, in the ultra-montane policy of the Friborg State Councilor Georges Python and the establishment of the University of Friborg in 1889 . In 1924, under the episcopate of Marius Besson , the de facto bishopric of Freiburg was finally established de iure. The collegiate church in the center of Friborg, consecrated to St. Nicholas of Myra , was elevated to the status of a cathedral and in 1925 the diocese was given the new name "Diocèse de Lausanne, Genève et Friborg". The strong increase in Catholic believers in the decades after 1945 led under Bishop François Charrière to the establishment of five episcopal vicariates in the individual cantons, with the canton of Friborg having one episcopal vicariate each for the German-speaking and the French-speaking part. In addition, the diocesan bishop has been supported by an auxiliary bishop since 1968 . From 1986 to 1995 even two auxiliary bishops worked in the diocese at the same time.

After a first attempt with the same intention in 1980 was unsuccessful, Bishop Charles Morerod made a proposal to his clergy in March 2015 to divide the diocese and establish a new diocese of Geneva.

In May 2020 it was announced that Diocesan Bishop Charles Morerod had appointed Marianne Pohl-Henzen as episcopal delegate for the Episcopal Vicariate of Deutschfreiburg on August 1, 2020 . She will thus exercise the same function as an episcopal vicar.

Diocesan calendar

In the diocese of Lausanne-Geneva-Freiburg, the regional calendar for the German-speaking area is supplemented by the following celebrations (followed by the rank and the liturgical color ).

Abbreviations: H = solemn festival , F = festival , G = mandatory day of remembrance , g = non-mandatory day of remembrance , GK = general calendar , RK = regional calendar

See also

literature

  • Jill R. Fehleison: Boundaries of Faith: Catholics and Protestants in the Diocese of Geneva. Penn State University Press, University Park 2011, ISBN 978-1-935503-11-8 .

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Friborg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cath-vd.ch , accessed on June 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ Le diocèse de Lausanne (VIe siècle-1821), de Lausanne et Genève (1821–1925) et de Lausanne Genève et Friborg (depuis 1925), ed. by Patrick Braun, Basel and Frankfurt am Main: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1998, p. 22f.
  3. ↑ Le diocèse de Lausanne (VIe siècle-1821), de Lausanne et Genève (1821–1925) et de Lausanne Genève et Friborg (depuis 1925), ed. by Patrick Braun, Basel and Frankfurt am Main: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1998. 24.
  4. ↑ Le diocèse de Lausanne (VIe siècle-1821), de Lausanne et Genève (1821–1925) et de Lausanne Genève et Friborg (depuis 1925), ed. by Patrick Braun, Basel and Frankfurt am Main: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1998, p. 37.
  5. ↑ Le diocèse de Lausanne (VIe siècle-1821), de Lausanne et Genève (1821–1925) et de Lausanne Genève et Friborg (depuis 1925), ed. by Patrick Braun, Basel and Frankfurt am Main: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1998, p. 39ff.
  6. ↑ Le diocèse de Lausanne (VIe siècle-1821), de Lausanne et Genève (1821–1925) et de Lausanne Genève et Friborg (depuis 1925), ed. by Patrick Braun, Basel and Frankfurt am Main: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1998, p. 25.
  7. ↑ Le diocèse de Lausanne (VIe siècle-1821), de Lausanne et Genève (1821–1925) et de Lausanne Genève et Friborg (depuis 1925), ed. by Patrick Braun, Basel and Frankfurt am Main: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1998, p. 24.
  8. ↑ Le diocèse de Lausanne (VIe siècle-1821), de Lausanne et Genève (1821–1925) et de Lausanne Genève et Friborg (depuis 1925), ed. by Patrick Braun, Basel and Frankfurt am Main: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1998, p. 45f.
  9. ↑ Le diocèse de Lausanne (VIe siècle-1821), de Lausanne et Genève (1821–1925) et de Lausanne Genève et Friborg (depuis 1925), ed. by Patrick Braun, Basel and Frankfurt am Main: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1998, p. 46.
  10. ↑ Le diocèse de Lausanne (VIe siècle-1821), de Lausanne et Genève (1821–1925) et de Lausanne Genève et Friborg (depuis 1925), ed. by Patrick Braun, Basel and Frankfurt am Main: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1998, p. 46.
  11. ↑ Le diocèse de Lausanne (VIe siècle-1821), de Lausanne et Genève (1821–1925) et de Lausanne Genève et Friborg (depuis 1925), ed. by Patrick Braun, Basel and Frankfurt am Main: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1998, p. 205.
  12. ^ Andrea Kucera: The Catholics approach Geneva . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 1, 2015 ( online ).
  13. ^ "Switzerland: Friborg receives a woman as an episcopal delegate" on vaticannews.va from May 20, 2020.