Diocese of Versailles

Diocese of Versailles
Basic data
Country	France
Metropolitan bishopric	Archdiocese of Paris
Diocesan bishop	Eric Aumonier
Auxiliary bishop	Bruno Valentin
Emeritus diocesan bishop	Jean-Charles Thomas
founding	November 29, 1801
surface	2,284 km²
Parishes	286 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents	1,405,306 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics	913,449 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of	65%
Diocesan priest	182 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest	22 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest	4,478
Permanent deacons	47 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Friars	23 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters	243 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	French
cathedral	Saint-Louis Cathedral
address	BP 655 16 rue Monseigneur Gibier 78008 Versailles CEDEX France
Website	catholique-versailles.cef.fr

The diocese of Versailles ( Latin Dioecesis Versaliensis , French Diocèse de Versailles ) located in France was spun off from the Archdiocese of Paris on November 29, 1801 . It is subject to this today as a suffragan .

Bishops

• 1802-1827 Louis Charrier de La Roche
• 1827–1832 Jean-François-Etienne Borderies
• 1832–1844 Louis-Marie-Edmont Blanquart de Bailleul , then Archbishop of Rouen
• 1844–1857 Jean-Nicaise Gros
• 1858–1877 Jean-Pierre Mabile
• 1877–1904 Pierre-Antoine-Paul Goux
• 1906–1931 Charles-Henri-Célestin Gibier
• 1931–1952 Benjamin-Octave Roland-Gosselin
• 1953–1967 Alexandre-Charles Renard , then Archbishop of Lyon and Cardinal
• 1967–1988 Louis Simonneaux
• 1988-2001 Jean-Charles Thomas
• 2001– Eric Aumonier0000

literature

• Dominique Grascœur: Les Evêques de Versailles. SOCEVAL, Châteaufort 2002. 48 pages.

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Versailles  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Diocese of Versailles (French)
• Homepage of the St. Louis Cathedral of Versailles (French)
• Entry on the Diocese of Versailles on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)

Saint Louis Cathedral at Versailles