Diocese of Soissons
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| Country | France |
| Ecclesiastical province | Reims |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Reims |
| Diocesan bishop | Renauld de Dinechin |
| surface | 7,378 km² |
| Parishes | 43 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Residents | 559,000 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics | 404,400 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| proportion of | 72.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 75 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious priest | 12 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 4,648 |
| Permanent deacons | 24 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Friars | 15 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious sisters | 72 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | French |
| cathedral | Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais cathedral |
| Website | www.soissons.catholique.fr |
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The diocese of Soissons, Laon and Saint-Quentin ( Latin Dioecesis Suessionensis, Laudunensis et Sanquintinensis , French Diocèse de Soissons, Laon et Saint-Quentin ) is a Roman Catholic diocese in France. It essentially extends over the area of the Aisne department . The seat of the diocese is the city of Soissons . Episcopal church is the cathedral Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais (Gervasius and Protasius).
history
The diocese of Soissons was created at the beginning of the 4th century as a diocese in Augusta Suessionum ( Soissons ), which later became the capital of the Frankish Empire of Soissons , which - like other dioceses in capital cities - held a special position in the church hierarchy from the beginning .
After the French Revolution , the Soissons diocese was re-established as a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Paris by the Concordat of 1801 , but was assigned to the Archdiocese of Reims in 1822 .
statistics
At the end of 2010, 548,017 inhabitants lived on the territory of the diocese. Of these, 397,187 (72.5%) were Catholics who received pastoral care in 43 parishes .
See also
Web links
- Website of the diocese (French)
- Entry on the Diocese of Soissons on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)
