Archdiocese of Bordeaux

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Archdiocese of Bordeaux
Basic data
Country France
Diocesan bishop Jean-Paul James
Auxiliary bishop Bertrand Lacombe
Jean-Marie Le Vert
Emeritus diocesan bishop Jean-Pierre Cardinal Ricard
founding 4th century
surface 10,725 km²
Parishes 593 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Residents 1,511,200 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Catholics 1,012,500 (2018 / AP 2019 )
proportion of 67%
Diocesan priest 167 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Religious priest 46 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Catholics per priest 4,754
Permanent deacons 37 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Friars 61 (2018 / AP 2019 )
Religious sisters 238 (2018 / AP 2019 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral Saint-André
Website bordeaux.catholique.fr/
Ecclesiastical province
Map of the ecclesiastical province

Ecclesiastical province of Bordeaux

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bordeaux (-Bazas) ( latin Archidioecesis Burdigalensis (-Bazensis) ) until 1937 Archdiocese of Bordeaux , is in the southwest of France located Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church . The episcopal seat of the Archbishops of Bordeaux is the Saint-André Cathedral in Bordeaux .

Bordeaux Cathedral

history

The bishopric was established in 314 and the first bishop was Oriental . The holy dolphin (380–404), Amandus (404–410 and 420–432) and Severin of Cologne (410) worked as bishops in the city. In the 5th century Bordeaux was conquered by the Visigoths and shortly afterwards by the Franks . In 732 Abd ar-Rahman devastated the city during his campaign (see Battle of Tours and Poitiers ). In the 9th century the Normans invaded and sacked the city again. Only then did Bordeaux begin to recover. Gérard d'Angoulême (de Blaye) was the first archbishop of the diocese from 1131 to 1135 .

The old Romanesque episcopal church was followed by the Gothic Saint-André cathedral , which was built in the 11th to 14th centuries. It has a single nave and is remarkably wide with a portal richly decorated with statues, flanked by two 50 m high towers and the Peyberland bell tower.

1305 Archbishop was Bertrand de Goth as Clement V to Pope elected. In March 1309 he designated Avignon as the new seat of the Popes (see Avignon Papacy ). Other notable archbishops were François Hugotion de Aguzzoni (1389–1412) and Jean du Bellay (1544–1553). In his more than 30-year term in office, Henry de Béthune worked entirely in the spirit of the Tridentine church reform.

The archbishopric was also affected by the turmoil of the French Revolution , the cathedral was converted into a barn. Archbishop Jérôme Marie Champion de Cicé (since 1781) was urged to resign from office by the Constitutional Bishops Pierre Pacareau and Dominique Lacombe , but refused to do so and emigrated. With the signing of the Concordat of 1801 by Napoléon and Cardinal Consalvi as the representative of Pope Pius VII , Charles-François d'Aviau Du Bois de Sanzay (1802-1826) became archbishop. He was followed by Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Lefebvre de Cheverus (1826–1836), François-Auguste-Ferdinand Donnet (1836–1882) and Aimé-Victor-François Guilbert (1883–1889). Archbishop Victor Lécot (1890–1908) was known for his social commitment, e. B. known for the creation of working kitchens and his advocacy of the working class. His successor Pierre-Paulin Andrieu (1909–1935) went down in French history as a strict representative of anti-modernism . Under Maurice Feltin (1935–1949) it was renamed the Archdiocese of Bordeaux (-Bazas) on November 20, 1937; the diocese of Bazas was abolished in 1802. Feltin, who then became Archbishop of Paris, was followed by Cardinal Paul Richaud (1950–1968), Marius Maziers (1968–1989), Cardinal Pierre Eyt (1989–2001) and Jean-Pierre Ricard (2001–2019), who became Cardinal in 2006 was appointed. Ricard's successor was Jean-Paul James after a brief vacancy .

Suffragan seats

Before 1801
  1. Diocese of Agen
  2. Diocese of Angoulême
  3. Diocese of La Rochelle
  4. Diocese of Luçon
  5. Diocese of Périgueux
  6. Diocese of Poitiers
  7. Bishopric of Saintes
  8. Bishopric of Sarlat
From 1822 to 2002
  1. Diocese of Agen
  2. Diocese of Angoulême
  3. Diocese of La Rochelle-Saintes
  4. Diocese of Luçon
  5. Diocese of Périgueux
  6. Diocese of Poitiers
Since 2002
  1. Diocese of Agen
  2. Diocese of Aire and Dax
  3. Diocese of Bayonne
  4. Diocese of Périgueux

See also

Web links

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