Roman Catholic Diocese of Tournai

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Diocese of Tournai

Dioecesis Tornacensis

Diocèse de Tournai (French)
Bistum Tournai (German)
Bisdom Doornik (Dutch)
Hainaut
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Tournai (

Archdiocese of Mechelen–Brussels. The cathedra is found within the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Tournai, which has been classified both as a major site for Wallonia's heritage since 1936[2] and as a World Heritage Site since 2000.[3]

History

As early as the second half of the 3rd century

Emperor Maximian rekindled persecutions, and St. Piat was martyred as a result.[4]

St. Vaast (Vedastus), and founded the See of Tournai (c. 500), appointing as its titular Eleutherius.[4]

Medieval Catholic dioceses superimposed over modern-day Belgium. Tournai lies in the west.

It was probably its status of royal city which secured Tournai's early rise, only to lose its position as capital upon the departure of the

Cambrai. The same ordinary held both sees for five hundred years. It was only in 1146 that Tournai received its own bishop.[4]

Notable bishops are: St. Eleutherius (beginning of 6th century); St. Achar (626/27 – 1 March 637/38);

bibliophile, was auxiliary bishop of Tournai.[5]

During Spanish rule (1521–1667) the see continued to be occupied by natives of the country, but the seize of Tournai by

Salm-Reifferscheid (1731–1770); Wilhelm Florentine, Prince of Salm-Salm
(1776–1794).

The reunion of the see with Noyon and the ensuing removal of the seat of the bishopric bolstered the chapter. The chapter's requirement to appoint only nobility and scholars, as set forth by the old régime, tended to attract the highly born and educated. Illustrious French and Belgian names are inscribed in the archive's registers and on the cathedral's tombstones. The cathedral, 439 feet (134 m) long by 216 feet (66 m) wide, is surmounted by 5 towers 273 feet (83 m) high. The nave and transept are Romanesque (12th century), while the choir is primary Gothic, begun in 1242 and completed in 1325.

Originally, the borders of the diocese arguably were those of the Civitas Turnacensium, as mentioned in the "Notice des Gaules". The prescriptions of councils and the interest of the Church both favoured such borders, and they were retained throughout the Middle Ages. The diocese then further extended along the left bank of the river Schelde, from the river Scarpe to the North Sea, with the exception of the Vier-Ambachten (Hulst, Axel, Bouchaute, and Assenede), which are said to have always belonged to the

Diocese of Arras
, which bordered Tournai as far as the confluence of the Scarpe and the Schelde at Mortgne, France. This vast diocese was for a long time divided into three archdeaneries and twelve deaneries. The archdeanery of Bruges comprised the deaneries of Bruges, Ardenbourg, and Oudenbourg; the archdeanery of Ghent, the deaneries of Ghent, Roulers, Oudenarde, and Waes; the archdeanery of Tournai, the deaneries of Tournai, Seclin, Helchin, Lille, and Courtrai.

In 1559, to support the war against Protestantism, King

Department of Jemappes, which in 1815 became the Province of Hainaut
, whose borders coincided with those of the Diocese of Tournai, after a concordat between the plenipotentiaries of Pius VI and the consular government of the republic. The Bishop of Tournai retained only two scores of the parishes formerly under his jurisdiction, but received on the right bank of the Schelde a number of parishes which, prior to the Revolution, had belonged to the Diocese of Cambrai (302), Namur (50), and Liège (50).

Tournai Cathedral
Rear view of Tournai Cathedral

Bishops

To 1146

  • 540 : St. Eleutherius of Tournai (Eleuthere)
  • c. 549 and 552 : Agrecius
  • 545 : Medardus
  • Then jointly with Noyon
  • c. 626–c. 638 : Acarius
  • 641–660 : Eligius
  • c. 661–c. 686 :
    Mummolenus
  • Gondoin
  • c. 700 : Antgaire
  • c. 715 : Chrasmar
  • c. 721 : Garoul
  • c. 723 : Framenger
  • c. 730 : Hunuan
  • c. 740 : Gui et Eunuce
  • c. 748 : Elisée
  • c. 756/765 : Adelfred
  • ?  : Didon
  • 769–c. 782 : Giselbert
  • c. 798/799 : Pleon
  • c. 815 : Wendelmarus
  • c. 830/838 : Ronegaire
  • c. 830/838 : Fichard
  • 840–860 : Immon
  • 860–879 : Rainelme
  • 880–902 : Heidilon
  • 909 : Rambert
  • 915–932 : Airard
  • †936 : Walbert
  • 937–950 : Transmar, Transmarus
  • 950–954 : Rudolf
  • 954–955 : Fulcher
  • 955–977 : Hadulphe
  • 977–988 : Liudolf of Vermandois
  • 989–997 : Radbod I
  • 1000–1030 : Hardouin
  • 1030–1044 : Hugo
  • 1044–1068 : Balduin
  • 1068–1098 : Radbod II
  • 1099–1112 : Baldric of Noyon
  • 1114–1123 : Lambert
  • 1123–1146 : Simon of Vermandois
  • Diocese split

1146 to 1500; bishops of Tournai

1500 to 1800

From 1800

References

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  1. ^ "Tournai {Doornik} (Latin (or Roman) Diocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
  2. ^ "L'ensemble de la Cathédrale Notre-Dame à l'exception de l'orgue de choeur (partie instrumentale et buffet)". Patrimoine Wallon (in French). Direction de la Protection - Région Wallone. Retrieved 7 July 2011. - n° 57081-CLT-0002-01 - 5 February 1936
  3. ^ "Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai". UNESCO. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  4. ^ a b c Warichez, Joseph. "Tournai." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 7 September 2019Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ Arnould, Alain (1988). "The Iconographical Sources of a Composite Manuscript from the Library of Raphael de Mercatellis". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 51: 197–209. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  6. ^ In a sequence of events complicated by the English capture of Tournai in 1514, the young Guillard, although nominated to the see in 1513, was replaced by Wolsey. An Anglo-French treaty of 1519 resolved the matter. Peter G. Bietenholz, Thomas Brian Deutscher, Contemporaries of Erasmus (2003), pp. 151–2.
  7. ^ (in French) fr:Edmond Dumont

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

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