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Diocese of Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges

Dioecesis Gratianopolitana–Viennensis Allobrogum

Diocèse de Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges
Grenoble Cathedral
Location
CountryFrance
Metropolitan Lyon
Archdeaconries Archdiocese of Lyon
Statistics
Area7,467 km2 (2,883 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2021)
1,288,000 (est.)
816,870 (est.) (63.4 Decrease%)
Parishes47
Information
Denomination Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established4th Century
Cathedral Grenoble Cathedral
Patron saint Notre-Dame de l'Assomption
Secular priests117 (diocesan) Decrease
52 (Religious Orders)
43 Permanent Deacons Decrease
Current leadership
Pope Francis
BishopJean-Marc Eychenne
Metropolitan Archbishop Olivier de Germay
Map
Website
diocese-grenoble-vienne.fr

The Diocese of Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges ( Latin: Diocesis Gratianopolitana–Viennensis Allobrogum; Latin: Diocèse de Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in south-eastern France. The diocese, erected in the 4th century as the Diocese of Grenoble, comprises the department of Isère and the former canton of Villeurbanne ( Rhône), in the Region of Rhône-Alpes. In 2006, the name was changed from the diocese of Grenoble to the diocese of Grenoble–Vienne. The current bishop is J ean-Marc Eychenne, appointed on September 14, 2022.

Before the French Revolution it was a suffragan diocese of the Archbishopric of Vienne and included the deanery or see at Savoy, which in 1779, was made a bishopric in its own right, with the episcopal seat at Chambéry.

By the Concordat of 1801, the bishop of Grenoble was made a suffragan (Subordinate) of the Archdiocese of Lyon. Thirteen archipresbyterates of the former Archdiocese of Vienne were affiliated to the Diocese of Grenoble, and there were annexed to it some parishes from the then Diocese of Belley (now Diocese of Belley-Ars), the Diocese of Gap, the Archdiocese of Lyon, and the Diocese of Valence.

Bishops

Main article: List of bishops of Grenoble

Some historically important bishops of Grenoble were:

  • Hugh of Grenoble (1080–1132), noted for his zeal in carrying out Pope Gregory VII's orders concerning reform and for his opposition to the Bishop of Vienne, later Pope Callixtus II
  • Pierre Scarron (1621–1667), who, with the co-operation of many religious orders, restored Catholicism in Dauphiné
  • Étienne Le Camus (1671–1707), organizer of charitable loan associations
  • Jean de Caulet (1726–1771), who brought about general acceptance of the Bull Unigenitus, whose collection of books was the nucleus of the public library of the city.

History

Domninus of Grenoble, the first known Bishop of Grenoble, attended the Council of Aquileia in 381.

Shortly after 945, the territory and city of Grenoble were occupied by the Saracens. The bishop was obliged to flee with his treasures, and took up residence at the priory of S. Donat, in the Rhône just north of Valence. The Saracens were expelled in 965 by forces organized by Bishop Isarnus (949–990). [1] After the threat was gone, Bishop Isarnus rebuilt the cathedral, and initiated a project to repopulate the city and the valley of Graisivaudan. He settled people of all classes, and, since there were no counts or other nobility in the neignborhood, the bishops became the lords of both the city and the valley. [2]

The diocese of Grenoble is in possession of an almost complete account of the pastoral visits made between 1339 and 1970, a palæographical record perhaps unique of its kind in France.

Protestantism

From the first half of the thirteenth century the French branch of the Waldenses had its chief seat in Dauphiné, from which country emanated Guillaume Farel, the most captivating preacher of the French Reformation. Pierre de Sébiville, an apostate Franciscan friar, introduced Protestantism into Grenoble in 1522. The diocese was sorely tried by the wars of religion, especially in 1562, when the cruel Baron des Andrets acted as the Prince de Condé's lieutenant-general in Dauphiné.

The two sojourns at Grenoble in 1598 and 1600 respectively by Cotton, the Jesuit, later confessor to Henry IV of France, were prolific of some notable conversions from Protestantism; in memory of this the Constable de Lesdiguières, himself a convert in 1622, favoured the founding at Grenoble of a celebrated Jesuit house. In 1651 a college was established in connexion with the residence, and here Vaucanson, the well-known mechanician, studied. In 1700 the institution included theological courses in its curriculum.

The French Revolution

Pope Pius VI, when taken a prisoner to France on orders of the Directory, spent two days at Grenoble, from 7 July to 9 July 1799. The Constitutional Bishop of Isère, Henri Reymond, wrote to the pope, seeking an audience, but the letter was returned unopened, and no audience took place. The legitimate bishop, Jean-Marie du Lau d'Allemans, was living in exile, having refused to swear an oath to the French constitution. [3] The pope was taken to Valence, where he died in prison on 20 August 1799. The French Directory, which had ordered his arrest and deportation, fell in the coup engineered by Talleyrand and Napoleon on 10 November 1799.

Pius VII, in turn was kept in close confinement in the prefecture of Grenoble from 21 July until 2 August 1808, Bishop Simon not being permitted even to visit him.

Natives of Grenoble

Natives of what constitutes the present Diocese of Grenoble include: Amatus the Anchorite (6th century), the founder of the Abbey of Remiremont; and Peter, Archbishop of Tarantaise (1102–1174), a Cistercian, born in the ancient Archdiocese of Vienne. Jean-Baptiste Vianney, later known as the Curé of Ars, was ordained asubdeacon in Lyon by Bishop Claude Simon of Grenoble (1802–1825) on 2 July 1814; and a priest in Grenoble on 13 August 1815. [4]

Religious Orders in Grenoble

The Benedictines and Augustinians founded at an early date numerous priories in the diocese, that of Vizille dating from 994, but during St. Hugh's episcopal administration, monastic life attained a fuller development. The chapter-abbey of Saint-Martin de Miséré, whence originated many Augustinian priories, and the school of the priory of Villard Benoît at Pontcharra, were important during twelfth and thirteenth centuries. But the peculiar monastic foundation of Dauphiné, contemporaneous with St. Hugh's regime, was that of the Carthusians under Bruno of Cologne in 1084. The Frères du Saint-Esprit, who during the Middle Ages were scattered broadcast through the Diocese of Grenoble, did much to inculcate among the people habits of mutual assistance.

Before the enforcement of the law of 1901 there were in the Diocese of Grenoble Assumptionists, Olivétans, Capuchins, Regular Canons of the Immaculate Conception, Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Fathers of Holy Ghost and the Holy Heart of Mary, Brothers of the Cross of Jesus, Brothers of the Holy Family, Brothers of the Christian Schools and Brothers of the Sacred Heart. The diocesan congregations of women were: the Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, devoted to hospital work and teaching, and founded by Cathiard, who, after having been an officer under Napoleon, died Archpriest of Pont de Beauvoisin; the Sisters of Providence of Corenc, founded in 1841, devoted to hospital duty and teaching (mother-house at St. Marcellin) [5], and the Sisters of Our Lady of the Cross, likewise devoted to hospital and educational work, founded in 1832 (mother-house at Murinais).

Pilgrimage

The principal places of pilgrimage in the present Diocese of Grenoble are: Notre-Dame de Parménie, near Rivers, re-established in the seventeenth century at the instance of a shepherdess; Notre-Dame de l'Osier, at Vinay, which dates from 1649, and Our Lady of La Salette, which owes its origin to the apparition of the Virgin, 19 September 1846, to Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat, the devotion to Notre-Dame de la Salette being authorized by Bishop Bruillard, 1 May 1852.

See also

References

  1. ^ Joseph Toussaint Reinaud, Invasions des Sarrazins en France, et de France en Savoie, en Piémont et dans la Suisse, pendant les 8e, 9e, et 10e siècles, (in French), 1836), pp. 180-181, 198. Le Camus, pp. 11-12.
  2. ^ Reinaud, pp. 198-200.
  3. ^ Pietro Baldassari, Histoire de l'enlèvement et de la captivité de Pie VI, (in French), (Bruxelles: Ve J.-J. Vanderborght, 1840), pp. 444-450.
  4. ^ Alfred Monnin, Life of the Curé D'Ars, (London: Burns & Lambert, 1862), p. 44. Joseph Vianey, Le bienheureux curé d'Ars [Jean Marie Vianney]: patron des curés français (1786-1859), 4th edition (in French), (Paris: V. Lecoffre, 1906), pp. 25-27, who states that the priestly ordination took place in the former church of the Minims, which was serving as the chapel of the Major Seminary of Grenoble.
  5. ^ Albert Dubois, Notre-Dame de la Providence: son histoire et son culte, (in French), (Paris: Librairie Saint Paul, 1908), p. 414.

Sources

  • Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. pp. 548–549. (Use with caution; obsolete)
  • Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 301. (in Latin)
  • Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. p. 175.
  • Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.
  • Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06. p. 219.
  • Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06.

Studies

External links

  • Goyau, Georges. "Grenoble", in: The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 7 (New York: Appleton 1910), pp. 26-28.

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