Roman Catholic Diocese of Orléans

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Diocese of Orléans

Dioecesis Aurelianensis

Diocèse d'Orléans
Orléans Cathedral
Location
Country France
TerritoryLoiret
Ecclesiastical provinceTours
MetropolitanArchdiocese of Tours
Statistics
Area6,811 km2 (2,630 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2013)
656,000
445,000 (67.8%)
Information
DenominationCatholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established1st Century
CathedralCathedral Basilica of the Holy Cross in Orléans
Patron saintSaint Aignan
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopJacques Blaquart
Metropolitan ArchbishopVincent Jordy
Bishops emeritusAndré Louis Fort Bishop Emeritus (2003-2010)
Map
Website
catholique-orleans.cef.fr

The Diocese of Orléans (Latin: Dioecesis Aurelianensis; French: Diocèse d'Orléans) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese currently corresponds to the Départment of Loiret. The current bishop is Jacques André Blaquart, who was appointed in 2010.

The diocese has experienced a number of transfers among different metropolitans. In 1622, the diocese was

suffragan of the Archdiocese of Paris; previously the diocese had been a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Sens. From 1966 until 2001 it was under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Bourges, but since the provisional reorganisation of French ecclesiastical provinces, it is now subject to the Archdiocese of Tours
.

After the Revolution it was re-established by the

Diocese of Blois
.

Jurisdiction

The present Diocese of Orléans differs considerably from that of the old regime; it has lost the arrondissement of

Archdiocese of Bourges
.

History

To Gerbert,

St. Trond
.

Huguenots in the 1560s, the Bourbon
kings restored it in the 17th century.

After his victory over the

St. Benedict of Aniane
sent fourteen monks and visited the abbey himself. The last abbot of Micy, Chapt de Rastignac, was one of the victims of the 1792 "September Massacres", at Paris, in the prison of L'Abbaye.

From Micy monastery, which counted many saints, monastic life spread within and around the diocese.

Bishop of Chartres from 544–56. Finally saint Ay
(Agilus), Viscount of Orléans (died after 587), was also a protector of Micy.

Saints

Among the notable saints of the diocese are:

Innocent II and St. Bernard
visited Fleury and Orléans in 1130.

Pilgrimages

The principal pilgrimages of the diocese are: Our Lady of Bethlehem, at Ferrières; Our Lady of Miracles in Orléans city, dating back to the seventh century (Joan of Arc visited the sanctuary on 8 May 1429); Our Lady of Cléry, dating from the thirteenth century, visited by kings Philip the Fair, Philip VI, and especially by Louis XI, who wore in his hat a leaden image of Notre Dame de Cléry and who wished to have his tomb in this sanctuary where Jean de Dunois, one of the heroes of the Hundred Years' War, was also interred.

Later history

The people of Orléans were so impressed by the preaching of

Francis of Guise
was assassinated on 3 February 1562.

The Calvinist

Quietism
, was born at Montargis in 1648.

France was saved from English domination through the deliverance of Orléans by Joan of Arc (8 May 1429). On 21 July 1455, her rehabilitation was publicly proclaimed at Orléans in a solemn procession, and before her death in November 1458, Isabel Romée, the mother of Joan of Arc, saw a monument erected in honour of her daughter, at Tournelles, near the Orléans bridge. The monument, destroyed by the Huguenots in 1567, was set up again in 1569 when the Catholics were once more masters of the city. Until 1792, and again from 1802 to 1830, finally from 1842 to the present day, a great religious feast, celebrated 8 May of every year at Orléans in honour of Joan of Arc, attracted multitudes.

The Church of Orléans was the last in France to take up again the Roman liturgy (1874). The Sainte Croix cathedral, perhaps built and consecrated by St. Euvertius in the fourth century, was destroyed by fire in 999 and rebuilt from 1278 to 1329; the Protestants pillaged and destroyed it from 1562 to 1567; the Bourbon kings restored it in the seventeenth century.

Modernity

Prior to the Associations Law of 1901, the Diocese of Orléans counted

Lazarists, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and several orders of teaching Brothers. Among the congregations of women which originated in this diocese must be mentioned: the Calvary Benedictines, a teaching and nursing order founded in 1617 by Princess Antoinette d'Orléans-Longueville, and the Capuchin Leclerc du Tremblay known as Père Joseph; the Sisters of St. Aignan
, a teaching order founded in 1853 by Bishop Dupanloup, with mother-house in Orléans.

Twentieth-century bishops of Orleans included Guy Riobé, whose opposition to nuclear weapons led to an altercation with a member of Georges Pompidou's government, and his successor, Jean-Marie Lustiger, who was appointed in 1979 after a long interregnum and shortly afterwards translated to Paris.

Episcopal Ordinaries

Of the eighth-century bishops,

Abbey of Fleury to the young noblemen sent thither by Charlemagne, invited the clergy to establish free schools in the country districts, and quoted for them, "These that are learned shall shine as the brightness of the firmament: and they that instruct many to justice, as stars to all eternity" (Dan., xii 3). One monument of his time still survives in the diocese, the apse of the church of Germigny-des-Prés
modelled after the imperial chapel, and yet retaining its unique mosaic decoration.

Medieval Bishops

  • Aignan of Orleans, or Agnan (Latin: Anianus) (b. 358 – d. 453), assisted Roman general Flavius Aetius in the defense of the city against Attila the Hun in 451.
  • Namatius, an ambassador of King Guntram to the Bretons
  • Eucherius of Orléans
  • Jonas (821 – 843), who wrote a treatise against the Iconoclasts, also a treatise on the Christian life and a book on the duties of kings[2]
  • St. Thierry II (1016 – 21)
  • Jean
    , consecrated on 1 March 1098
  • Blessed Philip Berruyer (1234 – 1236)
  • Blessed Roger le Fort (1321 – 1328)
  • John Carmichael of Douglasdale (Jean de St Michel)
  • Regnault de Chartres † (9 Jan 1439 Appointed – 4 Apr 1444 Died)
  • Pierre Bureau † (20 Nov 1447 Appointed – 10 Dec 1451 Appointed, Bishop of Béziers)
  • François de Brillac † (3 Nov 1473 Appointed – 22 Dec 1504 Appointed, Archbishop of Aix)
  • Christophe de Brillac † (19 Jan 1504 Appointed – 4 Feb 1514 Appointed, Archbishop of Tours)
  • Jean d’Orléans-Longueville
    † (26 Jun 1521 Appointed – 24 Sep 1533 Died)
  • Antoine Sanguin de Meudon † (6 Nov 1533 Appointed – 20 Oct 1550 Resigned)
  • François de Faucon † (20 Oct 1550 Appointed – 12 Oct 1551 Appointed, Bishop of Mâcon)
  • Pierre du Chastel † (12 Oct 1551 Appointed – 3 Feb 1552 Died)
  • Jean de Morvillier † (27 Apr 1552 Appointed – 1564 Resigned)
  • Mathurin de la Saussaye † (6 Sep 1564 Appointed – 9 Feb 1584 Died)
  • Denis Hurault † (9 Feb 1584 Succeeded – 1586 Resigned)
  • Germain Vaillant de Guelin † (27 Oct 1586 Appointed – 15 Sep 1587 Died)
  • Jean de L’Aubespine † (16 Mar 1588 Appointed – 23 Feb 1596 Died)

Early Modern Bishops

  • Gabriel de L’Aubespine
    † (15 Mar 1604 Appointed – 15 Aug 1630 Died)
  • Nicolas de Netz † (27 Jan 1631 Appointed – 20 Jan 1646 Died)
  • Alphonse d’Elbène † (21 Jan 1647 Appointed – 20 May 1665 Died)
  • Pierre-Armand du Cambout de Coislin
    † (29 Mar 1666 Confirmed – 5 Feb 1706 Died)
  • Louis-Gaston Fleuriau d’Armenonville † (15 Nov 1706 Confirmed – 9 Jun 1733 Died)
  • Nicolas-Joseph de Paris † (9 Jun 1733 Succeeded – 10 Jan 1754 Resigned)
  • Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval † (14 Jan 1754 Confirmed – 28 Feb 1758 Resigned)
  • Louis-Sextius de Jarente de La Bruyère † (13 Mar 1758 Confirmed – 28 May 1788 Died)
  • Louis-François-Alexandre de Jarente de Senas d’Orgeval † (28 May 1788 Succeeded – 22 Nov 1793 Resigned)

Modern Bishops

See also

References

  1. ^ See Patrologia Latina, CV, 187).
  2. ^ For these texts see Patrologia Latina, CVI, 117; for the latter Sources Chrétiennes 407.
  3. ^ Lustiger became a Cardinal and Member of the Académie française, Fauteuil no. 4 (1995–2007).

Bibliography

Reference works

  • Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz. (Use with caution; obsolete)
  • Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin)
  • Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. (in Latin)
  • Eubel, Conradus (ed.); Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
  • Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  • Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
  • Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 6 July 2016.

Studies

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