Roman Catholic Diocese of Annecy

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The Diocese of Annecy (

From 1535 to 1801 the bishops of Geneva, exiled by the Reformation from Geneva, lived at Annecy. Francis de Sales was Bishop of Annecy from 1602 to 1622. From 1801 to 1822, Annecy belonged to the Diocese of Chambéry and Geneva, but was made an episcopal see 15 February 1822, by the papal bull Sollicita catholici gregis.^[1]

The memory of

• Claude-François de Thiollaz (21 Apr 1822 Appointed – 14 Mar 1832 Died)
• Pierre-Joseph Rey (13 Jun 1832 Appointed – 31 Jan 1842 Died)
• Louis Rendu (25 Aug 1842 Appointed – 28 Aug 1859 Died)
• Charles-Marie Magnin (11 Dec 1860 Appointed – 14 Jan 1879 Died)
• Louis-Romain-Ernest Isoard (9 May 1879 Appointed – 3 Aug 1901 Died)
• Pierre-Lucien Campistron (13 May 1902 Appointed – 22 Aug 1921 Died)
• Florent-Michel-Marie-Joseph du Bois de la Villerabel (21 Nov 1921 Appointed – 11 May 1940 Appointed,
  Archbishop of Aix
  )
• Auguste-Léon-Alexis Cesbron (30 Sep 1940 Appointed – 13 Jul 1962 Died)
• Jean-Baptiste-Étienne Sauvage (28 Sep 1962 Appointed – 27 Sep 1983 Retired)
• Archbishop of Bourges
  )
• Yves Boivineau (7 May 2001 Appointed – 27 Jun 2022 Retired)
• Yves Le Saux (27 Jun 2022 Appointed – present)

See also

• Catholic Church in France
• List of Catholic dioceses in France

References

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)
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1968). Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi sive summorum pontificum, S. R. E. cardinalium, ecclesiarum antistitum series... A pontificatu Pii PP. VII (1800) usque ad pontificatum Gregorii PP. XVI (1846) (in Latin). Vol. VII. Monasterii: Libr. Regensburgiana.
• Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1978). Hierarchia catholica Medii et recentioris aevi... A Pontificatu PII PP. IX (1846) usque ad Pontificatum Leonis PP. XIII (1903) (in Latin). Vol. VIII. Il Messaggero di S. Antonio.
• Pięta, Zenon (2002). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentioris aevi... A pontificatu Pii PP. X (1903) usque ad pontificatum Benedictii PP. XV (1922) (in Latin). Vol. IX. Padua: Messagero di San Antonio.
  ISBN 978-88-250-1000-8
  .

• Société bibliographique (France) (1907). L'épiscopat français depuis le Concordat jusqu'à la Séparation (1802-1905). Paris: Librairie des Saints-Pères.

External links

• (in French) Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France, L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919, retrieved: 2016-12-24.
• Catholic Hierarchy ^{[self-published]}
• GCatholic.org

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