Diocese of Mores

Diocese of Mores
Basic data
Country	Switzerland
Ecclesiastical province	Immediate
Diocesan bishop	Jean-Marie Lovey CRB
Emeritus diocesan bishop	Henri Cardinal Schwery Norbert Brunner
Vicar General	Richard Lehner Pierre-Yves Maillard
founding	0999
surface	5,589 km²
Dean's offices	12 (December 2, 2008)
Parishes	157 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Residents	322,000 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics	247,700 (2014 / AP 2015 )
proportion of	76.9%
Diocesan priest	136 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious priest	87 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics per priest	1,111
Permanent deacons	17 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Friars	113 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious sisters	281 (2014 / AP 2015 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	German , French
cathedral	Cathedral of Our Lady
address	CP 2124, rue de la Tour 12, CH-1950 Sion 2, Suisse
Website	www.cath-vs.ch

The diocese of Sitten ( Latin Dioecesis Sedunensis , French Diocèse de Sion ) is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland and comprises most of the canton of Valais , with the exception of the parishes of Finhaut, Vernayaz, Salvan and Saint-Maurice / Mex, which belong to the territorial abbey of Saint-Maurice and the parish of Saint-Gingolph , which belongs to the diocese of Annecy . In addition, the territory of the diocese includes the Aigle district in Vaud , with the exception of the Villeneuve parish, which belongs to the diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Friborg .

In the 15th and 16th centuries, Uff der Flüe Castle , also Auf der Flüe in Naters, was the bishop's residence for a time and gave its name to it. The seat of the bishop and the cathedral chapter today is the Cathedral of Our Lady ( Notre-Dame de Sion or du Glarian ) in Sion . From 1995 to July 2014, Bishop Norbert Brunner was the chief shepherd of the traditional diocese, which had a major influence on the history of the canton of Valais . Since then, Jean-Marie Lovey CRB has been Bishop of Sion.

Coat of arms of the diocese of Sion

Cathedral of Our Lady (Sion)

Dean's offices, pastoral care regions and parishes

The diocese of Sion has a total of 12 deaneries, 36 pastoral care regions and 157 parishes. The deaneries are the following (in alphabetical order):

• Deanery Aigle
• Deanery Ardon
• Deanery Brig
• Deanery Ernen
• Deanery Leuk
• Deanery Martinach
• Deanery Monthey
• Deanery Raron
• Deanery of Sierre
• Deanery Sion
• Dean's office Vex
• Deanery Visp

Diocesan calendar

In the diocese of Sion, 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

• April 27: Petrus Canisius - G (RK: g) - white
• May 2: Sigismund - g - red. The feast day of St. Athanasius the Great (GC: G) is a non-mandatory day of remembrance in the diocese of Sitten.
• May 8th: Mary , mediator of all graces - G - white
• June 15: Bernhard von Aosta - G - white; Archdeacon, founder of the Great Saint Bernard Hospice (1081)
• August 16: Theodor von Sitten - H - white; Patron of the diocese of Sion
• August 30th: Guarinus von Sitten - G - white
• September 22nd: Mauritius and Companions - H (RK: g) - red; Cartridge of the Valais
• September 25th: Nikolaus von Flüe - H (RK: g) - white; Patron saint of Switzerland
• September 30: Ursus and Victor von Solothurn - g - red. The feast day of St. Hieronymus (GC: G) is a non-mandatory day of remembrance in the diocese of Sitten.
• October 13: Anniversary of the consecration of the cathedral of Sion - in cathedral H, in the rest of the diocese F - white
• October 16: Gallus - G (RK: g) - white
• November 5th: All saints of the diocese - G - white
• November 25th: Catherine of Alexandria - G (GK: g) - red; second patroness of Valais (4th century)

Personalities

• Alfons Tscherrig CSsR (1903–1982), Vicar Apostolic of Reyes
• André Perraudin MAfr (1914–2003), Archbishop of Kabgayi
• Heinrich Karlen CMM (1922–2012), Archbishop of Bulawayo
• Paul Grichting (1923–2003), chaplain of the Swiss Guard
• Henri Cardinal Schwery (* 1932), Bishop Emeritus of Sion
• Josef Zimmermann (1939–2018), canon and vicar general in the diocese of Sion
• Norbert Brunner (* 1942), bishop emeritus of Sitten
• Peter Stephan Zurbriggen (* 1943), Apostolic Nuncio in Austria
• Peter Bürcher (* 1945), bishop emeritus of Reykjavik
• Emil Paul Tscherrig (* 1947), Apostolic Nuncio in Argentina

See also

• List of the bishops of Sion
• List of auxiliary bishops in Sion
• List of Episcopal Vicars of the Diocese of Sion
• Swiss Bishops' Conference
• Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland
• List of Roman Catholic Dioceses

Web links

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

• Gregor Zenhäusern: Sitten (diocese). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Entry on the diocese of morals on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Germain Hausmann: Saint Maurice (abbaye). In: Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, online version, July 30, 2015 [1] , accessed on June 17, 2020
2. ↑ Catherine Santchi Annecy (diocèse). In: Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, online version, June 18, 2002 [2] , accessed on June 14, 2020
3. ↑ [3] , accessed on June 14, 2020
4. ↑ The castle “Uf der Flüe”. Brig Belalp Tourism, archived from the original on May 23, 2012 ; Retrieved January 9, 2011 .