Latin Catholic archdiocese in France
The Archdiocese of Paris (
Latin : Archidioecesis Parisiensis ;
French : Archidiocèse de Paris ) is a
Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or
archdiocese of the
Catholic Church in France . It is one of
twenty-three archdioceses in France. The
original diocese is traditionally thought to have been created in the 3rd century by
St. Denis and corresponded with the Civitas Parisiorum; it was elevated to an archdiocese on October 20, 1622. Before that date the bishops were
suffragan to the
archbishops of Sens .
History
Paris was a Christian centre at an early date, its first apostles being
St. Denis
[1] and his companions, Sts. Rusticus and Eleutherius. Until the Revolution the ancient tradition of the Parisian Church commemorated the seven stations of St. Denis, the stages of his apostolate and martyrdom:
(1) the ancient monastery of
Notre-Dame-des-Champs of which the crypt, it was said, had been dedicated to the Blessed Virgin by St. Denis on his arrival in Paris;
(2) the Church of
St-Etienne-des-Grès (now disappeared), which stood on the site of an oratory erected by St. Denis to St. Stephen;
[2]
(3) the Church of St-Benoît (disappeared), where St. Denis had erected an oratory to the Trinity (Deus Benedictus);
(4) the chapel of St-Denis-du-Pas near Notre-Dame (disappeared), on the site of the tribunal of the prefect Sicinnius, who tried St. Denis;
(5) the Church of St-Denis-de-la-Châtre, the crypt of which was regarded as the saint's cell (now vanished);
(6)
Montmartre , where, according to the chronicle written in 836 by Abbot Hilduin, St. Denis was executed;
[3]
(7) the
Basilica of Saint-Denis .
[2]
Clovis founded, in honour of the Apostles Peter and Paul, a
monastery to which the tomb of St.
Genevieve drew numbers of the faithful, and in which St.
Clotilde , who died at Tours, was buried.
[2]
To form a conception of Paris in the tenth and eleventh centuries, one must picture a network of churches and monasteries surrounded by cultivated farm-lands on the present site of Paris. From the beginning of the twelfth century, the monastic schools of Paris were already famous. The episcopate of Maurice de Sully (1160-96), the son of a simple serf, was marked by the consecration of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.
[4]
The title of
Duc de Saint-Cloud was created in 1674 for the archbishops.
[5]
Prior to 1790 the diocese was divided into three
archdeaconries : France,
Hurepoix ,
Brie .
Until the creation of new dioceses in 1966 there were two archdeaconries:
Madeleine and
St. Séverin .
[6] The reform reduced the diocese's size, losing the dioceses of
Chartres ,
Orléans and
Blois .
[7]
Present day
Its
suffragan dioceses , created in 1966 and encompassing the
Île-de-France region , are
Créteil ,
Evry-Corbeil-Essonnes ,
Meaux ,
Nanterre ,
Pontoise ,
Saint-Denis , and
Versailles . Its
liturgical centre is at
Notre-Dame Cathedral in
Paris . The archbishop resides on rue Barbet de Jouy in the
6th arrondissement , but there are diocesan offices in rue de la Ville-Eveque, rue St. Bernard and in other areas of the city. The archbishop is
ordinary for
Eastern Catholics (except
Armenians and
Ukrainians ) in France.
The churches of the current diocese can be divided into several categories:
i)
Latin Church parishes. These are grouped into
deaneries and subject to
vicars-general who often coincide with
auxiliary bishops .
ii) Churches belonging to religious communities.
iii) Chapels for various foreign communities using various languages.
iv) Eastern-Church parishes and communities throughout France dependent on the Archbishop as Ordinary of the Ordinariate of France, Faithful of Eastern Rites.
Bishops of Paris
To 1000
?–
c. 250 :
Denis (died
c. 250 ), believed to be the first bishop of Paris
[8]
Mallon
Masse
Marcus
Adventus
c. 346 :
Victorinus
c. 360 : Paulus
?–417?:
Prudentius
[9]
360–436: Marcellus
[10]
???–??: Vivianus (Vivien)
???–??: Felix
???–??: Flavianus
???–??: Ursicianus
???–??: Apedinus
???–??: Heraclius (511 - c. 525?)
???–??: Probatius
533–545: Amelius
545–552: Saffarace
um 550: Eusebius I
550–576:
Germanus
576–591:
Ragnemod
um 592: Eusebius II
???–??: Faramonde
um 601: Simplicius
606–614:
Ceraunus /Ceran
[11]
Gendulf
625–626: Leudébert (Léodebert)
?-650: Audobertus
[12]
650–661:
Landericus (Landry)
661–663:
Chrodobertus
???–??: Sigebrand († 664)
???–666: Importunus
666–680:
Agilbert
[13]
690–692: Sigefroi
693–698: Turnoald
???–??: Adulphe
???–??: Bernechaire († 722)
722–730:
Hugh of Champagne
[14]
???–??: Agilbert
???–??: Merseidus
???–??: Fédole
???–??: Ragnecapt
???–??: Radbert
???–??: Madalbert (Maubert)
757-775: Déodefroi
[14]
775–795: Eschenradus
[15]
???–??: Ermanfroi (809?)
811–831: Inchad
831/2–857: Erchanrad II.
858–870:
Aeneas
[16]
871–883: Ingelvin
884–886:
Goslin
886–911:
Anscharic (Chancellor 892, 894–896 and 900–910)
911–922: Theodulphe
922–926: Fulrad
927-c. 935: Adelhelme
937–941: Walter I., son of
Raoul Tourte
c. 954: Constantius
950–977:
Albert of Flanders
???–??: Garin
979–980: Rainald I. (Renaud)
984–989: Lisiard († 19. April 989)
[17]
991–992: Gislebert (Engelbert) († 992)
991–1017:
Renaud of Vendôme
1000 to 1300
1300 to 1500
From 1500
Archbishops of Paris
The Diocese of Paris was elevated to the rank of archdiocese on October 20, 1622.
Auxiliary bishops
See also
Notes
^
Stiglmayr, Joseph. "St. Denis." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
public domain .
^
a
b
c Georges Goyau (1911).
"Paris" . The Catholic Encyclopedia . Vol. XI. Robert Appleton Company.
^ Dictionnaire Historique de Paris . Le Livre de Poche. 2013. p. 477.
ISBN
978-2-253-13140-3 .
^
Weber, Nicholas. "Maurice de Sully." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
public domain .
^
The History of Paris: From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Containing a Description of Its Antiquities, Public Buildings, Civil, Religious, Scientific and Commercial Institutions ... To which is Added, an Appendix: Containing a Notice of the Church of Saint Denis; an Account of the Violation of the Royal Tombs; Important Statistical Tables . A. and W. Galignani. 1825.
^ Times, Richard E. Mooney Special To the New York (1966-10-21).
"PARIS CATHOLICS REALIGN DIOCESES; Reorganization Is to Serve as Model for Large Cities" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-04-21 .
^
"HISTORIQUE DU DIOCÈSE ET DE LA PROVINCE DE PARIS" . Le Monde.fr (in French). 1966-10-10. Retrieved 2022-04-21 .
^
"Saint Denis - bishop of Paris" . Britannica.com . Retrieved 23 April 2018 .
^
"Saint Marcellus, Bishop of Paris, Confessor. November 1. Rev. Alban Butler. 1866. Volume XI: November. The Lives of the Saints" . Bartleby.com . Retrieved 23 April 2018 .
^
"Archived copy" (PDF) . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2013-11-04. Retrieved 2013-11-03 . {{
cite web }}
: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (
link )
^ Matthew Bunson and Stephen Bunson, Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints (2003), p. 202.
^
Harper, John N., "There are four saints named Landry in Catholicism. Who was ours?", Daily Advertiser , November 4, 2013
^ Fouracre, P., "Agilbert" in M. Lapidge, et al., (eds), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Oxford: Blackwell, 1999
ISBN
0-631-22492-0
^
a
b
"CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Paris" . Newadvent.org . Retrieved 23 April 2018 .
^ Jouy le Moutier, cartes postales et photographies anciennes , page 4
^
"New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. I: Aachen - Basilians - Christian Classics Ethereal Library" . Ccel.org . Retrieved 23 April 2018 .
^ J. Depoin: "Essai sur la chronologie des évêques de Paris, S. 17
^
"La cathédrale Saint-Etienne d'Auxerre – 6. Guillaume de Seignelay" . Catholique-sens-auxerre.cef.fr . Archived from
the original on 2 February 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2018 .
^
"chateauthierry" . Association-gauthier.org . Retrieved 23 April 2018 .
^
"Archbishop Jacques-Bonne Gigault de Bellefonds" .
Catholic-Hierarchy.org . David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015 .
^
"Archbishop Antoine-Eléonore-Léon Le Clerc de Juigné" .
Catholic-Hierarchy.org . David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015 .
^
"Rinunce e nomine, 02.12.2021" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 2 December 2021 .
^
"Pope names Laurent Ulrich as new Archbishop of Paris - Vatican News" . www.vaticannews.va . 2022-04-26. Retrieved 2022-04-26 .
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