Roman Catholic Diocese of Nancy

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Diocese of Nancy and Toul

Dioecesis Nanceiensis et Tullensis

Diocèse de Nancy et de Toul
Nancy Cathedral
Location
CountryFrance
Ecclesiastical provinceBesançon
MetropolitanArchdiocese of Besançon
Statistics
Area5,275 km2 (2,037 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2017)
755,200
672,000 (89%)
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
EstablishedUnited: 20 February 1824
CathedralCathedral of Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation in Nancy
Patron saintThe Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed in Heaven
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopPierre-Yves Michel
Metropolitan ArchbishopJean-Luc Bouilleret
Bishops emeritusJean-Louis Papin
Map
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Website
Website of the Diocese
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The Diocese of Nancy and Toul (

Archdiocese of Besançon.[4]

History

The title of

episcopal office
.

In 1271 grave differences broke out again in the chapter of

Lorraine asked Pope Clement VIII for the dismemberment of the See of Toul and the creation of a see at Nancy; this failed through the opposition of Arnaud d'Ossat, Henry's ambassador at Rome. In the end, Clement VIII decided that Nancy was to have a primatial church and that its prelate
would have the title of Primate of Lorraine and wear episcopal insignia, but should not exercise episcopal jurisdiction.

In 1648 according to the

Lothringen, surrounded by French territories and repeatedly occupied by French troops, finally fell to the French, and Lorraine became a French province. The population of Toul was around 10,000 persons in 1688.[5] After the French Revolution of 1789 France was divided into departments—Lorraine consisted of the departments of Meurthe, Meuse, Moselle and Vosges. Nancy, Verdun, Metz and Epinal became the capitals of these departments.[6]

In 1688, the Cathedral of Toul had a Chapter with ten dignities and forty Canons. In the city of Toul there were seven parishes, seven houses of male religious and four monasteries of monks. The diocese had around 200 parishes.[7]

In 1777, the Cathedral of Nancy had a Chapter in which there were three dignities and twenty-four Canons. In the city of 30,000 persons there were 7 parishes, twelve houses of male religious, and ten monasteries of monks.[8] All cathedral chapters in France were abolished in 1790 by the Constituent Assembly.

In 1777 and 1778 Toul lost territories out of which were formed two new dioceses:

Saint-Die and Nancy, both of them suffragans of Trier. The Concordat of 1802, suppressing Toul, made Nancy the seat of a vast diocese
which included three Departments: Meurthe, Meuse, and Vosges.

Revolution

The diocese of Nancy was abolished during the French Revolution by the Legislative Assembly, under the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790).[9] Its territory was subsumed into the new diocese, called 'Meurthe', which was part of the Metropolitanate called the 'Metropole du Nord-Est' (which included seven new 'départements' and dioceses). The Civil Constitution mandated that bishops be elected by the citizens of each 'département', which immediately raised the most severe canonical questions, since the electors did not need to be Catholics and the approval of the Pope was not only not required, but actually forbidden. Erection of new dioceses and transfer of bishops, moreover, was not in the competence of civil authorities or of the Church in France. The result was schism between the 'Constitutional Church' and the Catholic Church. The legitimate bishop of Nancy, Anne Louis Henri de La Fare, refused to take the oath, and therefore the episcopal seat was declared vacant.

On 13 March 1791 the electors of Meurthe were assembled, and elected the Lazarist P.-F. Chatelain, a Professor at the Seminary in Toul. After some considerable consideration, he refused the election.[10] The electors therefore returned to their deliberations, and, on the recommendation of the Ecclesiastical Committee of the National Assembly, on 8 May 1791 chose the Oratorian Luc-François Lalande of Saint-Lô, a theologian and student of Hebrew. He was consecrated a bishop at Notre Dame in Paris on 29 May by Jean-Baptiste Gobel, the titular Bishop of Lydda, who had been installed as Constitutional Bishop of Paris. On 3 June he made his official entry into Nancy, where he began a war of pamphlets with Bishop de la Fare, who was in exile in Trier.[11] In September 1792 Lalande was elected a delegate to the Convention, where, on 7 November, he renounced his functions. In 1795 he became a member of the Council of 500. In 1801 he wrote a letter of submission to Pope Pius VII. At the end of 1799, an assembly of Constitutional priests elected Francois Nicolas of Epinal as a successor to Lalande.[12]

Afterward

Nicolas, and all the Constitutional Bishops, were required to resign in May 1801 by First Consul Bonaparte, who was negotiating a treaty with Pope Pius VII, the Concordat of 1801 (15 July 1801). Nicolas never recanted. Once the Concordat went into effect, Pius VII was able to issue the appropriate bulls to restore many of the dioceses and to regulate their boundaries, most of which corresponded closely to the new 'départements'.[13] The Concordat of 1802, suppressing Toul, made Nancy the seat of a vast diocese which included three Departments: Meurthe, Meuse, and Vosges.

In a Bull of 6 October 1822,

Diocese of Toul is united with that of Nancy.[15]

Bishops

See also

References

  1. ^ "Catholiques en Meurthe-et-Moselle". 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-19.
  2. ISBN 978-0-19-827003-4
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  3. ^ Bullarii Romani Continuatio: summorum pontificum Clementis XIII, Clementis XIV, Pii VI, Pii VII, Leonis XII . (in Latin). Vol. Tomus quintus (Pii VI, anni 1-3). Rome: Typ. Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae. 1842. pp. 440–461. Gaetano Moroni, ed. (1847). Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da s. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni specialmente intorno ai principali santi ... compilazione di Gaetano Moroni: Mos-Nic. 47 (in Italian). Rome: dalla Tipografia Emiliana. p. 159.
  4. ^ Diocese of Nancy (-Toul) from catholic-hierarchy.org
  5. ^ Ritzler, V, p. 394 note 1.
  6. ^ "Lorraine". GenWiki. Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  7. ^ Ritzler, V, p. 394 note 1.
  8. ^ Ritzler, VI, p. 300 note 1.
  9. ^ Ludovic Sciout (1872). "Chapitre IV: La Constitution Civile". Historie de la constitution civile du clergé (1790-1801) (in French). Vol. Tome premier. Paris: Firmin Didot frères.
  10. ^ Paul Pisani (1907). Répertoire biographique de l'épiscopat constitutionnel (1791-1802) (in French). Paris: A. Picard et fils. pp. 215–216.
  11. ^ Pisani, pp. 216, 457.
  12. ^ Pisani, pp. 218-220
  13. ^ Concordat, et recueil des bulles et brefs de N.S.P. le pape Pie VII, sur les affaires actuelles de l'église de France (in Latin and French). chez J.R. Vigneulle. 1802. pp. 24–43. (Latin, with French translation)
  14. ^ Bullarii Romani continuatio, Summorum Pontificum Benedicti XIV, Clementis XIII, Clementis XIV, Pii VI, Pii VII, Leonis XII, Pii VIII constitutiones... (in Latin). Vol. Tomus septimus, Pars II. Parti: Aldina. 1852. pp. 2295–2304. L. Jerome, in: Société bibliographique (France) (1907), L'épiscopat français..., p. 385.
  15. ^ Nancy - Catholic Encyclopedia article
  16. archbishop of Auch
    . Ritzler, Hierarchia catholica, VI, p. 300 with note 2.
  17. archbishop of Bourges
    , on 17 December 1787, and in 1788 transferred to Toulouse. Jean, pp. 416–417. Ritzler, VI, p. 300 with note 3.
  18. ISBN 978-2-204-06938-0
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  19. ^ Osmond was born at Ouanaminthe (Haiti) in 1754 of aristocratic Norman parents. Brought to France at the age of 4, he was brought up by his uncle Charles d'Osmond, the Bishop of Comminges. He studied in Paris at S. Sulpice and S. Magalore, and became Vicar General of Toulouse in 1777. In 1785 he succeeded his uncle as Bishop of Comminges, and was consecrated on 7 May 1785 by Etienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne, Archbishop of Toulouse. He refused to take the oath to the Constitution in 1790 and emigrated to Spain and then England. He resigned his diocese at the demand of Pope Pius VII of 28 September 1801. Napoleon named him Bishop of Nancy on 9 April 1802 and he made his entry into his diocese on 13 June 1802. He was created a Baron of the Empire and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by Napoleon in 1808. In 1810 Napoleon sent Osmond to be Archbishop of Florence, without bothering about canonical requirements; he was in Florence from January 1811 until April 1814. In 1811 Napoleon made him a Count of the Empire. In Nancy Msgr. Benoît Costaz substituted for Osmond as Episcopal Administrator until his return in May 1814. Osmond died in Nancy on 27 September 1823. L. Jerome, in: Société bibliographique (France) (1907), L'épiscopat français..., pp. 383–385.
  20. ISBN 978-88-7652-466-0
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  21. archbishop of Bourges
    by imperial decree of 30 July 1859. He departed Nancy on 12 October 1859, and on 18 October the Chapter named an Administrator. L. Jerome, in: Société bibliographique (France) (1907), L'épiscopat français..., pp. 388–390.
  22. archbishop of Paris
    by imperial decree of 10 January 1863; he left Nancy on 8 April, but was named Apostolic Administrator until the installation of his successor. L. Jerome, in: Société bibliographique (France) (1907), L'épiscopat français..., pp. 390–391.
  23. ISBN 978-0-485-11453-9
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  24. archbishop of Besançon by Presidential decree on 22 March 1882, which was ratified (preconized) by Pope Pius IX
    on 30 March. L. Jerome, in: Société bibliographique (France) (1907), L'épiscopat français..., pp. 393–394.
  25. ^ Born in Chambéry in 1838, Turinaz was the nephew of Bishop Jean-François Turinaz, Bishop of Tarantaise. He studied at the French seminary in Rome (1859–1861) where he obtained doctorates in theology and Canon Law. He became Private Secretary of Cardinal Alexis Billiet, Archbishop of Chambéry. Turinaz was named bishop of Tarantaise by presidential decree on 10 January 1873, and preconized (approved) by Pope Pius IX on 21 March; he was consecrated on 11 June 1873 by Bishop François Gros. Bishop Turinaz was transferred from the diocese of Tarentaise by imperial decree on 23 March 1882, which was approved by Pope Leo XIII on 30 March 1882. L. Jerome, in: Société bibliographique (France) (1907), L'épiscopat français..., pp. 394–395, 618–619.
  26. ISBN 978-2-7010-1037-3
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  27. bishop of Arras. Diocèse d'Arras, Biographie de Mgr Jaeger évêque d'Arras
    , retrieved: 2017-01-11 (in French).
  28. ^ Papin was born in 1947 in Chemillé (Maine-et-Loire). He studied at the Institut catholique de Paris, and taught dogmatic theology at the seminary in Nancy. He was named Bishop of Nancy by Pope John Paul II on 3 September 1999, and consecrated in the Cathedral of Nancy on 24 October 1999 by Bishop Jean Pierre Orchampt of Angers. Catholiques en Meurthe et Moselle, Monseigneur Jean-Louis Papin, retrieved: 2017-01-11. (in French) David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy.org, Bishop Jean-Louis Henri Maurice Papin, retrieved: 2017-01-11.

Reference works

Toul Cathedral

Studies

External links

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