Roman Catholic Diocese of Périgueux explained

Jurisdiction:Diocese
Périgueux and Sarlat
Latin:Dioecesis Petrocoricensis et Sarlatensis
Local:Diocèse de Périgueux et Sarlat
Country:France
Province:Bordeaux
Metropolitan:Archdiocese of Bordeaux
Area Km2:9,060
Population:412,082
Population As Of:2013
Catholics:355,900
Catholics Percent:86.4
Denomination:Catholic Church
Particular Church:Latin Church
Established:3rd Century
Cathedral:Cathedral Basilica of St. Front in Périgueux
Patron:Saint Front
Bishop:Philippe Mousset
Metro Archbishop:Jean-Paul James
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Archdeacon:for one-->
Emeritus Bishops:Michel Mouïsse
Map:Diocèse de Périgueux-Sarlat.svg
Website:www.diocese24.catholique.fr

The Diocese of Périgueux and Sarlat (Latin: Dioecesis Petrocoricensis et Sarlatensis; French: Diocèse de Périgueux et Sarlat) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Its episcopal see is Périgueux, in the département of Dordogne, in the région of Aquitaine. The Diocese of Périgueux is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Bordeaux. The current bishop is Philippe Mousset, who was appointed in 2014.

History

The Martyrology of Ado gives St. Front as the first bishop of Périgueux; Saint Peter is said to have sent him to this town with the St. George to whom later traditions assign the foundation of the church of Le Puy. Subsequent biographies, which appeared between the 10th and 13th centuries, make St. Front's life one with that of St. Fronto of Nitria, thereby giving it an Egyptian colouring. At all events we know by the Chronicle of Sulpicius Severus that a Bishop of Périgueux, Paternus, was deposed for heresy about 361.

Among its bishops are:

The Abbey of Saint-Sauveur of Sarlat, later placed under the patronage of St. Sacerdos of Limoges, seems to have existed before the reigns of Pepin the Short and Charlemagne who came there in pilgrimage and because of their munificence deserved to be called "founders" in a Bull of Pope Eugene III (1153). About 936 St. Odo, Abbot of Cluny, was sent to reform the abbey. The abbey was made an episcopal see by pope John XXII, on 13 January 1318.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Gulik, Guilelmus van. Konrad Eubel. L. Schmitz-Kallenberg. Hierarchia catholica medii aevi. editio altera. III. 1923. sumptibus et typis librariae Regensbergianae. Münster. Latin. 272.
  2. Book: Louis Duchesne. Fastes épiscopaux de l'ancienne Gaule: II. L'Aquitaine et les Lyonnaises. 1910. Fontemoing. Paris. 130–134.
  3. http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1533-iii.htm#Longwy The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church – Biographical Dictionary – Consistory of November 7, 1533
  4. http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1517-ii.htm#Trivulzio2 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church – Biographical Dictionary – Consistory of July 1, 1517
  5. Le Boux was nominated to the See of Perigord by King Louis XIV on 1 May 1666, and his bulls of confirmation and consecration were issued by Pope Alexander VII on 15 December 1666: Gauchat, Hierarchia catholica IV, p. 277, with note 6. He died in August 1693.
  6. David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: Bishop Philippe Mousset. Retrieved: 2016-07-01.

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