Archdiocese of Besançon

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Archdiocese of Besançon
Basic data
Country France
Diocesan bishop Jean-Luc Bouilleret
Vicar General Jean-Claude Menoud
surface 9,732 km²
Parishes 67 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Residents 608,500 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics 578,400 (2015 / AP 2016 )
proportion of 95.1%
Diocesan priest 177 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious priest 13 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Catholics per priest 3,044
Permanent deacons 31 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Friars 41 (2015 / AP 2016 )
Religious sisters 399 (2015 / AP 2016 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language French
cathedral St. Jean Cathedral
Website catholique-besancon.cef.fr
Ecclesiastical province
Map of the ecclesiastical province

Ecclesiastical province of Besançon

The Besançon Cathedral

The Archdiocese of Besançon ( Latin Archidioecesis Bisuntina , French Archidiocèse de Besançon ) is an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France located in the east of the country .

history

The ancient Bisuntinus had been the seat of a bishopric since the 2nd century . Ferreolus (180-211) is considered the first bishop . Besançon was elevated to a metropolitan bishopric in the 4th century . Bishop Antidius of Besançon is considered a martyr († around 411). The city came to the Holy Roman Empire with the Kingdom of Burgundy ( Arelat ) in 1032/34 . The gothic cathedral St. Jean with important paintings by Fra Bartolommeo a . a. dates from the 11th century. The archbishop soon became lord of the city and Besançon became independent from the Free County of Burgundy . As of 1307, the city was imperial directly as an imperial city , but it was not until 1493 that it was actually independent of the princes of the area. The disputes between the archbishop and the city also dragged on into the 15th century. a. negotiated at the Council of Basel .

Archbishop Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (* 1517 in Besançon , † 1586 in Madrid ), the eldest son Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelles , was a cardinal and played an important role as Minister of Charles V in the Spanish Netherlands .

Between 1664 and 1678 Besançon moved between France and Spain before it was finally annexed to France by the peace treaties of Nijmegen . The Archbishop of Besançon remained spiritual prince and was represented with a virile vote in the Imperial Council of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation until 1803 . On November 29, 1801, the diocese of Saint-Claude was dissolved and added to the archbishopric, but this measure was withdrawn in 1822.

The current Archbishop of Besançon has been Jean-Luc Bouilleret since his appointment in 2013 , who succeeded André Lacrampe .

Structure of the ecclesiastical province of Besançon up to the Concordat of 1801 :

  • Archdiocese of Besançon
  1. Diocese of Basel
  2. Belley diocese
  3. Diocese of Lausanne

Structure of the ecclesiastical province of Besançon from the Boubon Restoration to the Peace of Frankfurt in 1871:

  • Archdiocese of Besançon
  1. Belley diocese
  2. Diocese of Metz
  3. Diocese of Nancy-Toul
  4. Bishopric of Saint-Dié
  5. Diocese of Strasbourg
  6. Diocese of Verdun

Structure of the ecclesiastical province of Besançon between 1871 and 2002:

  • Archdiocese of Besançon
  1. Belfort-Montbéliard diocese (since 1979)
  2. Diocese of Belley (until 1949)
  3. Diocese of Nancy-Toul
  4. Bishopric of Saint-Dié
  5. Diocese of Verdun

Structure of the ecclesiastical province of Besançon since 2002:

  • Archdiocese of Besançon
  1. Belfort-Montbéliard diocese
  2. Diocese of Nancy-Toul
  3. Bishopric of Saint-Claude
  4. Bishopric of Saint-Dié
  5. Diocese of Verdun

See also

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