Roman Catholic Diocese of Vaison explained

The Diocese of Vaison (Latin: dioecesis Vasionensis) was a Roman Catholic diocese in France, suppressed in 1801, with its territory transferred to the Diocese of Avignon.[1] It had been one of nine dioceses in the ecclesiastical province presided over by the archbishop of Arles, but a later reorganization placed Vasio, i.e. today's Vaison-la-Romaine, under the archbishop of Avignon. Jurisdiction inside the diocese was shared between the bishop and the Comte de Provence (Count of Provence), higher justice and the castle belonging to the Comte, and civil justice and all other rights belonging to the bishop. The cathedral was served by a chapter[2] which had four dignities: the provost (praepositus), the archdeacon, the sacristan, and the precentor. There were also six canons, each of whom had a prebend attached to his office.[3]

History

The oldest known bishop[4] of the See is Daphnus, who assisted at the Council of Arles (314).

Others were St. Quinidius (Quenin, 556-79), who resisted the claims of the patrician Mummolus, conqueror of the Lombards; Joseph-Marie de Suares (1633–66), who died in Rome in 1677 while filling the office of Custode of the Vatican Library and Vicar of the Basilica of St. Peter, and who left numerous works.[5]

St. Rusticala (551–628) was abbess of the monastery of St. Caesarius at Arles.

William Chisholme (II), former bishop of Dunblane, became bishop of Vaison-la-Romaine in 1566 or 1569.

Two councils which dealt with ecclesiastical discipline were held at Vaison in 442 and 529,[6] the latter a provincial council under the presidency of Caesarius of Arles.

The bishopric was suppressed[7] as part of the Napoleonic Concordat of 1801, between Consul Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII, and the territory of Vaison was incorporated into the diocese of Avignon and the diocese of Valence. In 2009 the title of Vasio was revived as a titular See.[8]

Bishops

To 1000

1000 to 1300

1300 to 1500

From 1500

See also

Bibliography

Reference works

Studies

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Notes and References

  1. Georges Goyau (1914). Encyclopedia: Ancient Diocese of Vaison. Catholic Encyclopedia. Volume 16. New York: Robert Appleton. Retrieved: 2016-07-19.
  2. Labande, p. 38.
  3. Gallia christiana I, pp. 919-920.
  4. St. Albinus (d. 262) was incorrectly placed by the Carthusian Polycarpe de la Rivière among the bishops of Vaison.
  5. Book: Dizionario biografico universale . 5. 1840. D. Passigli. Firenze. Italian. 212.
  6. Sirmond believed that the meeting in 529 was only an annual Synod of the Province: J. D. Mansi Sacrorum Consiliorum nova et amplissima collectio VIII (Florence 1762), p. 728.
  7. David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: Diocese of Vaison (suppressed)
  8. David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: Vaison (titular see). Retrieved: 2016-07-20.
  9. He was present at the council of Arles in 314: Duchesne, p. 262, no. 1.
  10. He was present at the councils of Riez (439), Orange (441), and Vaison (442): Duchesne, p. 262, no. 2. He is mentioned in Pope Leo I's letter 109 of A.D. 449: Gallia christiana, p. 921.
  11. He was represented in 554 in the provincial council, and he is mentioned in the life of his successor: Duchesne, p. 262, no. 6.
  12. The aspect of desolation in these years is seen throughout the area, not just in the diocese of Vaison.See Labande, pp. 31-32, where Arab invasions are casually mentioned.
  13. His existence depends upon the citation of a document by the Benedictines working under Saint-Marthe: Gallia christiana I, p. 924. Labarde, p. 32, is skeptical. The document has never been produced.
  14. Bishop Elias was present in 879 at the assembly which made Boso, the brother-in-law of Charles the Bald, the first king of Burgundy and Provence: Duchesne, p. 263. Gallia christiana I, p. 924. Book: Simon MacLean. Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire. 2003. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge UK. 978-1-139-44029-5. 114–115.
  15. Bishop Umbert is credited with having established the Canons in the newly-built Cathedral of Notre-Dame: Boyer, pp. 74-76.
  16. Labarde, pp. 33-35, attributes to Umbert II the establishment of the body of Canons in the new cathedral, pointing out discrepancies in Boyer's chronology.
  17. Book: [Étienne Antoine] Granget. Histoire du diocèse d'Avignon et des anciens diocèses dont il est formé. 1862. Sequin ainé. French. 392.
  18. Ernest Rupin (1878), "Notice historique sur les évêques de Tulle," Book: Bulletin de la Société scientifique, historique et archéologique de la Corrèze. 1878 . I. M. Roche. Brive. French. 702–703.
  19. According to J.-H. Albanes, Histoire des évêques de Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux (Montbéliard: Hoffmann 1885) he was appointed by Alexander V, on 12 August 1409. See: T. de L., Revue critique d'histoire et de littérature n.s. 22, no. 48 (1886), p. 416.
  20. Former Bishop of Dunblane, Scotland: H. Morse Stephens, in: Book: Sir Leslie Stephen. Sir Sidney Lee. Dictionary of national biography. IV. 1908. Smith, Elder & Co.. 262.
  21. Abbé Fillet, "Grignan religieux," in:Book: Bulletin d'archéologie et de statistique de la Drôme. 14. 1880. Valence. French. 11–13.
  22. Dean of Grignan; Bishop of Philadelphia in partibus, and Coadjutor of Vaison from 1624. In 1632 he was Conseiller du roy dans ses conseils: Book: Edmond Maignien and Louis Royer. Catalogue des livres et manuscrits du fonds dauphinois de la Bibliothèque municipale de Grenoble: Dauphiné en général jusqu'en 1790. 1906. Impr. Allier frères. French. 198, no. 2782.
  23. Book: James R. Pollock. François Genet: The Man and His Methodology. 1984. Pontificia Universita Gregoriana Editrice. Rome. 978-88-7652-541-4.
  24. David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: Bishop Etienne-André-François de Paule de Fallot de Béaupré de Beaumont. Retrieved: 2016-07-20.
  25. He was deprived of his diocese after he protested the annexation of the Comtat Venaissin by France. He fled to Rome. He resigned the See of Vaison on 18 November 1801: Book: Augustin Theiner. Histoire des Deux Concordats. Tome II. 1869. Bar-le-Duc. French, Latin. 103–104. Pius VII appointed him Bishop of Ghent.

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