Diocese of Tournai
| Diocese of Tournai | |
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| Country | Belgium |
| Ecclesiastical province | Mechlin-Brussels |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Mechlin-Brussels |
| Diocesan bishop | Guy Harpigny |
| Vicar General | Olivier Merry |
| surface | 3,786 km² |
| Parishes | 575 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Residents | 1,328,760 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics | 994,000 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| proportion of | 74.8% |
| Diocesan priest | 277 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious priest | 89 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 2,716 |
| Permanent deacons | 38 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Friars | 178 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| Religious sisters | 480 (2014 / AP 2015 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | French |
| cathedral | Notre-Dame de Tournai cathedral |
| address | 1 place de l'Eveche 7500 Tournai |
| Website | www.diocese-tournai.be |
The Roman Catholic diocese of Tournai ( Latin Dioecesis Tornacensis , French Diocèse de Tournai ) has existed for over 1500 years. The parish today essentially comprises the Belgian province of Hainaut , but in the Middle Ages it also encompassed a considerable part of the then County of Flanders .
history
The diocese was founded in the 6th century and named after the city of Tournai . Even in Merovingian times it was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Reims . In 626 it was united with the diocese of Noyon and rededicated to a titular diocese .
After the Frankish division of the empire , Tounai fell together with the Middle Kingdom in 940 to the Eastern Franconian Empire , which later became the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation . In 1146 there was another separation from the diocese of Noyon - Tournai again had its own bishop . At the same time, the Notre-Dame de Tournai cathedral was rebuilt.
From 1434 to 1438 a trial for the diocese took place at the Council of Basel . In the course of a reorganization of the dioceses in what was then the Habsburg Netherlands in 1559, at the instigation of Philip II, a considerable part of the north of the diocese was separated and the dioceses of Ghent and Bruges were newly founded. Tournai was subordinate to the Archdiocese of Cambrai .
In 1801 the diocese was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Mechlin-Brussels as part of a renewed ecclesiastical reorganization as a result of the French Revolution .
cathedral
The Notre-Dame de Tournai 's Cathedral of the diocese of Tournai.
