Roman Catholic Diocese of Auxerre
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The diocese of Auxerre (
Burgundy, now part of eastern France. Currently the non-metropolitan Archbishop of Sens, ordinary of the diocese of Sens and Auxerre
, resides in Auxerre.
Ecclesiastical history
The Gesta pontificum Autissiodorensium,canons Rainogala and Alagus, and later continued up to 1278, gives a list of bishops of Auxerre. Louis Duchesne regards the list as mostly accurate, but very arbitrary in its dates prior to the 7th century. Auxerre is remarkable among French churches for the number of its bishops who have come to be regarded as saints.[1][2][3][4]
Bishops of the original Gesta
Sixtus II and was martyred under Emperor Diocletian in 303 or 304.[4]
After Peregrine, the original 870s Gesta list:[4]
- St. Marcellianus
- Valerianus
- St. Helladius (d. 387)
- by St. Helladius and who thus affords the earliest example of ecclesiastical tonsure mentioned in the religious history of France
- St. Germanus of Auxerre (418–448), to whom the abbey in Auxerreis dedicated
- St. Allodius
- St. Fratemus
- St. Censurius, to whom about 475 the priest Constantius sent the Life of St. Germain
- St. Ursus
- St. Theodosius, who assisted in 511 at the First Council of Orléans
- St. Gregorius
- St. Optatus
- St. Droctoaldus
- St. Eleutherius, who assisted at four Councils of Orléans between 533 and 549[4]
- St. Romanus (†ca. 564[5])
- St. Actherius
- St. Gallo-Romanneighbours
- St. Desiderius (Didier)
- St. Palladius, who assisted at several councils in 627, 650 and 654
- Waratton, mayor of the palace
- St. Tetricius (692–707)
- Savaric (710–715)
- Aidulf (perhaps 751–766)
- Maurin (perhaps 766–794)
- Blessed Aaron(perhaps 794–807)
- Blessed Angelelmus (807–828)
- St. Heribaldus (829–857), first chaplain of Louis the Pious, and several times given ambassadorial charges[4]
- St. Abbo (857–869)
- Blessed Christian (860–871)
Later additions
- Wibaldus (879–887)
- Herifridus (Herfroy; 887–909)
- St. Géran (909–914)
- St. Betto (933–961)
- Guy (933–961)
- Heribert I (971-996)
- John (996–999)
- Hugh of Chalon(999–1030)
- Heribert II (1039-1052)
- Geoffrey of Champallemand (1052-1076)
- Robert of Nevers (1076-1092)
- Humbaud (1095–1114), drowned on the way to Jerusalem
- St. Hugues de Montaigu (1116–1136), a friend of St. Bernard
- Pope Eugenius IIIwith adjusting differences and re-establishing order in monasteries
- Alanus (1152–1167), author of a life of St. Bernard
- Guillaume de Toucy (1167–1181), the first French bishop who went to Rome to acknowledge the authority of Pope Alexander III.
- Albigensesand the "Caputiés" (mainly in Sens)
- bishop of Paris
- Henry of Villeneuve (1220–1235)
- Bernard de Sully (1235–1244)
- Charles of Anjou against Manfred
- Pierre de Mornay (1296–1306), who negotiated between Pope Boniface VIII and king Philip IV and in 1304 became chancellor of France
- Pierre de Cros(1349–1351), cardinal in 1350
- Pierre de Longueil (1449–1474)
- Enguerrand Signart (1474–1477)
- John III Baillet (1477–1513)
- François de Dinteville (1513–1530)
- Philippe de Lenoncourt (1560–1562), cardinal in 1586
- Philibert Babou de la Bourdaisière (1562–1570), cardinal in 1561
- grand almoner of kings Charles IX and Henry III
- Pierre de Broc (1640-1671)
- Charles de Caylus (1704–1754), who made his diocese a centre of Jansenism and whose published works in four volumes were condemned by Rome in 1754.
On November 29, 1801, the diocese of Auxerre was suppressed. On October 7, 1817, it was restored, but in 1821 it was suppressed again. On June 3, 1823, it was united once more to the diocese of Sens. The newly united diocese soon became an archdiocese, but after many years, in 2006, which in turn lost its Metropolitan status in 2006 and became a suffragan see of the Ecclesiastical Province of the
Dijon
.
The Cathedral of Auxerre, completed in 1178, contains numerous sculptures in the Byzantine style.[4]
See also
Notes
- ^ Variants of the title: Gesta pontificum Altissiodorensium (Latin); Gestes des évêques d'Auxerre (French)
References
- ^ Gesta Pontificum Autissiodorensium, sussex.ac.uk
- ^ Gesta episcoporum Autissiodorensium - Gesta pontificum Autissiodorensium, mirabileweb.it
- ^ 1385. Gesta pontificum Autissiodorensium, persee.fr
- ^ a b c d e f
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Goyau, Pierre-Louis-Théophile-Georges (1912). "Sens". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ Otros Santos y Beatos del 6 de octubre
Bibliography
- Gams, Pius Bonifatius (1873). Series episcoporum Ecclesiae catholicae: quotquot innotuerunt a beato Petro apostolo. Ratisbon: Typis et Sumptibus Georgii Josephi Manz.
- Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1913). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 1 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. pp. 72–73. (in Latin)
- Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1914). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 2 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. pp. 80–81.
- Gulik, Guilelmus (1923). Eubel, Conradus (ed.). Hierarchia catholica, Tomus 3 (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana. pp. 95–96.
- Gauchat, Patritius (Patrice) (1935). Hierarchia catholica IV (1592-1667). Münster: Libraria Regensbergiana. Retrieved 2016-07-06. p. 70.
- Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1952). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi V (1667-1730). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06. p. 70.
- Ritzler, Remigius; Sefrin, Pirminus (1958). Hierarchia catholica medii et recentis aevi VI (1730-1799). Patavii: Messagero di S. Antonio. Retrieved 2016-07-06. p. 67.
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