Archdiocese of Toulouse

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Archdiocese of Toulouse
Basic data
Country France
Diocesan bishop Robert Le Gall OSB
Emeritus diocesan bishop Émile Marcus PSS
Vicar General Gérard Delom
surface 6,372 km²
Parishes 628 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Residents 1,260,226 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics 788,600 (2014 / AP 2015 )
proportion of 62.6%
Diocesan priest 161 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Religious priest 88 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Catholics per priest 3,167
Permanent deacons 29 (2014 / AP 2015 )
Friars 215 (2010 / AP 2011 )
Religious sisters 424 (2010 / AP 2011 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral St. Etienne Cathedral
address 24-26 rue Perchepinte
31073 Toulouse CEDEX 7
France
Website http://toulouse.catholique.fr/
Ecclesiastical province
Map of the ecclesiastical province

Ecclesiastical province of Toulouse

St. Etienne Cathedral, Toulouse

The Archdiocese of Toulouse , also Archdiocese of Toulouse (-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux) , ( Latin Archidioecesis Tolosana (-Convenarum-Rivensis) ) is an archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church in France located in southern France . The seat is in Toulouse .

The Archbishop of Toulouse has been allowed to call himself Primate of Gallia Narbonensis since 1822 .

history

Toulouse has been a bishopric since the 3rd century . The first bishop was St. Saturninus of Toulouse (250), who is buried in the basilica of St. Sernin, which is dedicated to him in his episcopal city.

Well-known bishops were the trobador Folquet de Marselha († 1231) and Saint Louis of Toulouse (1296–1297) from the House of Anjou . In 1317 Toulouse was elevated to an archbishopric. The first archbishop was Jean Raymond Cardinal de Comminges (1318-1327, previously Bishop of Maguelonne ). Archbishop Odet de Coligny converted in 1562/63 and was then a leader of the Huguenots . After the French Revolution in 1801, various dioceses (parts of Saint-Bernard de Comminges, Lectoure, Lombez and Mirepoix and Couserans, Montauban, Pamiers, Rieux and Saint-Papoul) were the archdiocese assigned . On October 6, 1822, the archbishopric was renamed the Archdiocese of Toulouse (-Narbonne) , on January 19, 1935 in the Archdiocese of Toulouse (-Narbonne-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux) . Since June 14, 2006 the name is Archdiocese of Toulouse (-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux) .

Structure of the ecclesiastical province of Toulouse on the eve of the Concordat of 1801 :

  • Archdiocese of Toulouse
  1. Diocese of Lavaur
  2. Diocese of Lombez
  3. Diocese of Mirepoix
  4. Diocese of Pamiers
  5. Diocese of Rieux
  6. Bishopric of Saint Papoul

Structure of the ecclesiastical province of Toulouse between the Bourbon restoration and 2002:

  • Archdiocese of Toulouse
  1. Diocese of Carcassonne
  2. Diocese of Montauban
  3. Diocese of Pamiers

Structure of the ecclesiastical province of Toulouse since 2002:

  • Archdiocese of Toulouse
  1. Archdiocese of Albi
  2. Archdiocese too
  3. Diocese of Cahors
  4. Diocese of Montauban
  5. Diocese of Pamiers
  6. Diocese of Rodez
  7. Diocese of Tarbes and Lourdes

Jules-Géraud Cardinal Saliège , who headed the diocese from 1925 to 1956, wrote a much- noticed pastoral letter against the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War . The current Archbishop has been Robert Le Gall OSB since 2006 .

Facilities

The Institut Catholique de Toulouse is sponsored by the Archdiocese. The seminarians of the St. Cyprien Seminary, which is responsible for the training of candidates for priesthood from the 16 dioceses in the region, also study there. The educational center of the diocese Christ-Roi ("Christ the King"), with approx. 70 beds and conference rooms for 250 people, was built in 1964 on the outskirts of the city of Toulouse.

The archdiocese also maintains a retirement home, the Maison St. Augustin, for priests emeritus.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Archdiocese. Retrieved August 24, 2013 .
  2. ↑ "La Maison Diocésaine Christ the King 1964 - 2014". In: catholique.toulouse.fr. Retrieved October 4, 2014 .
  3. ^ "La Maison St. Augustin". In: catholique.toulouse.fr. Retrieved October 4, 2014 .

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