Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toulouse

Coordinates: 43°36′N 1°27′E / 43.60°N 1.45°E / 43.60; 1.45
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Archdiocese of Toulouse (–Saint Bertrand de Comminges–Rieux)
Roman Catholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established3rd Century
CathedralCathedral of St. Stephen in Toulouse
Patron saintSaint Stephen
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
Metropolitan ArchbishopGuy de Kerimel
Bishops emeritusÉmile Marcus
Robert Le Gall
Map
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Archdiocese of Toulouse (–Saint Bertrand de Comminges–Rieux)[a] is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory of the Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises the Department of Haute-Garonne and its seat is Toulouse Cathedral. Archbishop Guy de Kerimel has been its head since 2021.

Suffragans

The Archdiocese has 7 suffragan dioceses and archdioceses: Archdiocese of Albi, Archdiocese of Auch, Diocese of Cahors, Diocese of Montauban, Diocese of Pamiers, Diocese of Rodez, Diocese of Tarbes-et-Lourdes.

Jurisdiction

As re-established by the

Diocese of Lombez
.

History

Toulouse, chief town of the

Emperor Constantine
were pupils. In the fourth century it was reckoned the fifteenth town in importance in the empire.

In 413 it was taken by

St. Papoul
was his companion and like him a martyr.

According to Gregory of Tours history written in the 6th century, Saturninus was martyred by being dragged by a bull, and due to his having been abandoned by the local priests, he prayed to Christ that the diocese would forever be ruled by bishops that were not citizens of the city.[1]

St. Honoratus, given in some lists as St. Saturninus's successor, is recognised as a pre-Schism Western saint by the Orthodox Church and it is therefore wrong to suggest that he seems just to have crept in through error from the fabulous legend of

St. Firminus of Amiens
.

Among the bishops of Toulouse may be mentioned:

St. Erembert [fr](657), a monk of Fontenelle
who returned to his monastery to die.

From being the capital of the Duchy of Aquitaine, from 631, Toulouse became in 778 the capital of the County of Toulouse created by Charlemagne, and which in the tenth century was one of the main fiefs of the crown. Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, known as Raymond de Saint Gilles (1042–1105), was one of the leaders of the First Crusade.

Alphonse de Poitiers, brother of Louis IX of France, led to the uniting in 1271 of the County of Toulouse to the Crown of France, and Toulouse became the capital of the Province of Languedoc
.

The See of Toulouse was for a time made famous by

St. Louis, King of France. Louis had resigned to his brother Robert all rights over the Kingdom of Naples, and had accepted from Pope Boniface VIII the See of Toulouse after becoming a Franciscan friar. His successor was Peter de la Chapelle Taillefer
(1298–1312) who was created cardinal in 1305.

To this epoch belongs a change that took place in the history of the Diocese of Toulouse. It decreased in size but increased in dignity. Before 1295 the Diocese of Toulouse was very extensive. At the beginning of the thirteenth century Bishop Fulk had wished to divide it into several dioceses. In 1295 a portion of territory was cut off by Boniface VIII to form the

Diocese of Pamiers. Then in 1319 John XXII cut off the Diocese of Toulouse from the metropolitan church of Narbonne and made it a metropolitan with the Sees of Montauban, Saint-Papoul, Rieux, and Lombez as suffragans; a little later Lavaur and Mirepoix also became suffragans of Toulouse. The majority of these sees were composed of territory cut off from the ancient See of Toulouse itself. According to Pope John XXII, not only was the diocese too large and too populated for a single bishop to carry out all of his necessary functions, but also it was immensely rich and did not spend its wealth for the growth of the faith, but on luxuries and dissipation of every sort.[2]

Bishop of Cahors
. Gaillard refused the offer, and retired to Avignon where he died in 1327.

The first archbishop was

bishop of Vienne; Raymond de Canillac (1345–50), who resigned upon being named a cardinal in 1350; Cardinal Francis de Gozie (1391–92); Bernard du Rosier (1451–1474), author of two treatises on the temporal power of the pope and on the liberty of the Church, and who founded at Toulouse the College de Foix for the support of twenty-five poor scholars, where he collected one of the first libraries of the period; John of Orléans
(1503–1533), cardinal in 1533.

Protestantism entered Toulouse in 1532 through foreign students. As early as 1563 the Catholics of Toulouse founded a league to uphold the prerogatives of Catholicism, protected by the Parlement but jeopardized by certain Protestant town-councillors. From 1586 to 1595 the League party under Montmorency, Governor of Languedoc, and the

Duc de Joyeuse held control in Toulouse. The rule of Henry IV of France was definitively recognized there in 1596. During this period of religious unrest Toulouse had many notable archbishops: Gabriel de Gramont (1533–34), cardinal in 1530; Odet de Châtillon, Cardinal de Coligny (1534–1550), who became a Calvinist, married in 1564, and died in 1571; Anthony Sanguin (1550–1559), Cardinal de Meudon in 1539; Georges d'Armagnac (1562–1577), cardinal in 1544; François de Joyeuse
(1584–1605), cardinal in 1583 and who conducted the negotiations between Henry IV and the Holy See.

Subsequent archbishops included:

conclave of 1903
; he died in 1908.

Leadership

Bishops

Archbishops

  • Jean Raymond de Comminges (1318–1327) (previously
    Bishop of Maguelonne
    )
  • Guillaume de Laudun (1327–1345)
  • Raymond de Canillac (1346–1350)
  • Etienne Aldobrandi (Stefano Aldebrandi Cambaruti) (1350–1361)
  • Geofrroy de Vayroles (1379–1390)
  • Jean de Cardailhac (1379–1390)
  • François de Conzie (1390–1391)
  • Pierre de Saint Martial (1391–1401)
  • Vital de Castelmourou (1401–1410)
  • Dominique de Flourence (1410–1422)
  • Denys du Moulin (1423–1439)
  • Pierre du Moulin (1439–1451)
  • Bernard du Rosier (1452–1475)
  • Pierre de Lyon (1475–1491)
  • Hector de Bourbon (1491–1502)
  • Jean d'Orléans-Longueville (1503–1533)
  • Gabriel de Gramont (1533–1534)
  • Odet de Coligny (1534–1550)
  • Antoine Sanguin (1551–1559)
  • Robert de Lenoncourt (d. 1561)
    (1560–1561)
  • Georges d'Armagnac (1562–1583)
  • Paul de Foix (1583–1584)
  • Archbishop of Rouen
    )
  • Louis de Nogaret de La Valette d'Épernon
    (1614–1628)
  • Charles de Montchal (1628–1651)
  • Archbishop of Paris
    )
  • Charles-François d'Anglure de Bourlemont (1664–1669)
  • Pierre de Bonzi
    (1672–1673)
  • Joseph de Montpezat de Carbon (1675–1687)
  • Jean-Baptiste-Michel Colbert de Villacerf (1693–1710)
  • René-François de Beauveau de Rivau (1714–1721) (also
    Bishop of Narbonne
    )
  • Henri de Nesmond (1722–1727)
  • Jean-Louis de Balbis-Berton de Crillon (1728–1740)
  • Archbishop of Reims
    )
  • François de Crussol d'Uzès (1753–1758)
  • Bishop of Narbonne
    )
  • Archbishop of Sens
    )
  • François de Fontanges (1788–1801) (also
    Archbishop of Bourges
    )
  • Claude-François-Marie Primat (1802–1816)
  • François de Bovet (1817–1820)
  • Anne-Antoine-Jules de Clermont-Tonnerre (1820–1830)
  • Paul-Thérèse-David d'Astros (1830–1851)
  • Jean-Marie Mioland (1851–1859)
  • Florian Desprez (1859–1895)
  • François-Désiré Mathieu (1896–1899)
  • Jean-Augustin Germain (1899–1928)
  • Jules-Géraud Saliège (1928–1956)
  • Gabriel-Marie Garrone (1956–1966)
  • Louis-Jean-Frédéric Guyot (1966–1978)
  • André Charles Collini
    (1978–1996)
  • Emile Marcus, P.S.S. (1996–2006)
  • Robert Le Gall, O.S.B. (2006–2021)[3]
  • Guy de Kerimel (2021–present)

See also

Notes

  1. Latin: Archidioecesis Tolosana (–Convenarum–Rivensis); French: Archidiocèse de Toulouse (–Saint-Bertrand de Comminges–Rieux-Volvestre); Occitan
    : Archidiocèsi de Tolosa (–Sent Bertran de Comenge–Rius (Volvèstre))

References

  1. ^ A history of the Franks, Gregory of Tours, Pantianos Classics, 1916
  2. ^ J.-M. Vidal, "Les origines de la province ecclésiastique de Toulouse," Annales du Midi 15 (1903), pp. 469-492.
  3. ^ "Resignations and Appointments, 09.12.2021" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 9 December 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2021.

External links

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Toulouse". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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