Archdiocese of Chambéry
| Archdiocese of Chambéry | |
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| Country | France |
| Metropolitan bishopric | Archdiocese of Lyon |
| Diocesan bishop | Philippe Ballot |
| Vicar General | Pierre Viale |
| founding | April 26, 1966 |
| surface | 7,460 km² |
| Parishes | 141 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Residents | 446,676 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics | 399,000 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| proportion of | 89.3% |
| Diocesan priest | 99 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious priest | 25 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Catholics per priest | 3,218 |
| Permanent deacons | 22 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Friars | 102 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| Religious sisters | 180 (2016 / AP 2017 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | French |
| cathedral | Saint-François-de-Sales cathedral |
| address | 18 av. Dr. Desfrancois BP 107 73001 Chambery CEDEX France |
| Website | catholique-savoie.cef.fr |
The Archdiocese of Chambéry ( Latin Archidioecesis Camberiensis , French Archidiocèse de Chambéry ) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France with its seat in Chambéry .
history
On August 18, 1779 by Pope Pius VI. founded diocese was separated from the diocese of Grenoble and was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Lyon . And by the Concordat of 1801 , the Archdiocese of Tarantaise and the Diocese of Maurienne were incorporated into it .
After the Congress of Vienna , on July 10, 1817, it became the metropolitan seat of the ancestral lands of the House of Savoy within the Kingdom of Sardinia , west of the main Alpine ridge and the Aosta Valley . The country of Savoy , the ecclesiastical province of Chambéry, remained with Sardinia until the Peace of Zurich in 1860, when it was decided that the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice would fall to France and Sardinia would be united with other countries of Italy as part of the Risorgimento to form the Kingdom of Italy .
After it was on April 26, 1966 by Pope Paul VI. was reunited with the dioceses of Maurienne and Tarentaise, it lost its status as a metropolis on December 16, 2002 and was re-incorporated into the ecclesiastical province of Lyon, although it retained its rank as an archdiocese.
Structure of the ecclesiastical province of Chambéry from 1817 to 1966:
- Archdiocese of Chambéry
- Diocese of Annecy (since 1822)
- Diocese of Aosta (until 1862)
- Diocese of Maurienne (since 1825)
- Tarentaise diocese (since 1825)
Structure of the ecclesiastical province of Chambéry from 1966 to 2002:
- Archdiocese of Chambéry
Ordinaries
- Michel Conseil (1780–1793)
- René des Monstiers de Mérinville (1802–1805)
- Irénée-Yves Desolle (Dessole) (1805-1823)
- François-Marie Bigex (1824-1827)
- Antoine Martinet (1827-1839)
- Alexis Cardinal Billiet (1840–1873)
- Pierre-Anastase Pichenot (1873–1880)
- François-Albert Leuillieux (1881-1893)
- François Hautin (1893–1907)
- Gustave-Adolphe de Pélacot (1907-1907)
- François-Virgile Cardinal Dubillard (1907-1914)
- Dominique Castellan (1915-1936)
- Pierre-Marie Durieux (1937–1947)
- Louis de Bazelaire (1947-1966)
- André-Georges Bontems (1966–1985)
- Claude Feidt (1985–1999) (then Archbishop of Aix (-Arles-Embrun))
- Laurent Ulrich (2000–2008) (then Archbishop of Lille)
- Philippe Ballot (since 2009)
Web links
- Homepage of the Archdiocese of Chambéry (French)
- Entry on Archdiocese of Chambéry on catholic-hierarchy.org (English)