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The Archdiocese of Bordeaux (–Bazas) (
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: ''Archidioecesis Burdigalensis (–Bazensis)'';
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: ''Archidiocèse de Bordeaux (–Bazas)''; Occitan: ''Archidiocèsi de Bordèu (–Vasats)'') is a
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Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture ...
,
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. It was established under the
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by combining the ancient Diocese of Bordeaux (diminished by the cession of part to the Bishopric of Aire) with the greater part of the suppressed Diocese of Bazas. The Archdiocese of Bordeaux is a
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, with four suffragan dioceses in its
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: Dioceses of Agen, Aire and Dax,
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, and
Périgueux Périgueux (, ; oc, Peireguers or ) is a commune in the Dordogne department, in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. Périgueux is the prefecture of Dordogne, and the capital city of Périgord. It is al ...
.


History

Constituted by the same Concordat metropolitan to the suffragan Bishoprics of
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,
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and
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, the see of Bordeaux received in 1822, as additional suffragans, those of
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, withdrawn from the metropolitan of Toulouse, and the newly re-established
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and
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. In 1850, three (then colonial) Bishoprics of
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(
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), Guadeloupe and Basse-Terre (
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), and
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(
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), were added. Since 2002 the province of Bordeaux (corresponding historically with Aquitania Secunda) has been substantially modified following the abolition of the province of Auch and the creation of that of Poitiers.


Early history

According to old Limousin legends which date back to the beginning of the eleventh century,
Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture ...
was evangelized in the first century by
Saint Martial Saint Martial (3rd century), called "the Apostle of the Gauls" or "the Apostle of Aquitaine", was the first bishop of Limoges. His feast day is 30 June. Life There is no accurate information as to the origin, dates of birth and death, or the act ...
(Martialis), who replaced a temple to the unknown god, which he destroyed, with one dedicated to
Saint Stephen Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ''Stéphanos'', meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor, renown, fame", often given as a title rather than as a name; c. 5 – c. 34 AD) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first ...
. The same legends represent Martial as having brought to the Soulac coast Saint Veronica, who is still especially venerated in the church of Notre-Dame de Fin des Terres at
Soulac Soulac-sur-Mer (; oc, Solac de Mar, , ), commonly known as Soulac (''Solac''), is a commune in the department of Gironde, administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (formerly Aquitaine), France. It's a seaside resort on Côte d'Argent, in the ...
; as having cured Sigebert, the paralytic husband of the pious Benedicta, and made him Bishop of Bordeaux, and as having addressed letters in Latin to the people of Bordeaux, where he left the pastoral staff now treasured as a relic by the Chapter of Saint-Seurin. The first Bishop of Bordeaux known to history, Orientalis, is mentioned at the
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. By the close of the fourth century Christianity had made such progress in Bordeaux that a synod was held there (384), summoned by the Emperor Maximus, for the purpose of adopting measures against the Priscillianists, whose heresy had caused popular disturbances. This was during the episcopate of
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(380–404), who attended the Council of Saragossa in 380, and maintained correspondence with St. Ambrose and with
St. Paulinus of Nola Paulinus of Nola (; la, Paulinus Nolanus; also Anglicized as Pauline of Nola; – 22 June 431) born Pontius Meropius Anicius Paulinus, was a Roman poet, writer, and senator who attained the ranks of suffect consul () and governor of Campania ...
. At the beginning of the 5th century a mysterious figure, who according to Saint
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came from the East, appeared in Bordeaux: Severinus (Seurin), in whose favour Bishop Amand abdicated the see from 410 to 420, resuming it after Seurin's death and occupying it until 432. In the 6th century, Bordeaux had as its bishop Leontius II (542–564), a man of great influence who used his wealth in building churches and clearing lands and whom the poet Fortunatus calls ''patriae caput''. During this
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period the cathedral church, founded in the fourth century, occupied the same site that it does today, tight against the ramparts of the ancient city. The Faubourg Saint-Seurin outside the city was a great centre of popular devotion, with its three large basilicas of Saints Stephen, Seurin, and Martin surrounding a large necropolis from which a certain number of sarcophagi are still preserved. The cemetery of Saint Seurin was full of tombs of the Merovingian (early dark ages) period around which the popular imagination was to create legends. In the high noon of the Middle Ages it used to be told how Christ had consecrated this cemetery and that
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, having fought the
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near Bordeaux, had visited it and laid Roland's wonderful horn Olivant/Oliphant on the altar of Seurin. Many tombs passed for those of Charlemagne's gallant knights and others were honored as the resting-places of Veronica and Benedicta. At the other extremity of the city, Benedictines drained and filled in the marshes of L'Eau-Bourde and founded there the monastery of Sainte-Croix. While thus surrounded by evidence of Christian conquest, the academic Bordeaux of the Merovingian period continued to cherish the memory of its former school of eloquence, whose chief glories had been the poet
Ausonius Decimius Magnus Ausonius (; – c. 395) was a Roman poet and teacher of rhetoric from Burdigala in Aquitaine, modern Bordeaux, France. For a time he was tutor to the future emperor Gratian, who afterwards bestowed the consulship on him ...
(310–395) and St Paulinus (353–431), who had been a rhetorician at Bordeaux and died Bishop of Nola.


Middle Ages

During the whole 8th century and part of the 9th, no bishops are mentioned for Bordeaux among Vatican and local records. Frotharius was archbishop in 870, when he fled the city in the face of
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raids. In the late tenth century, ecclesiastical power was once again concentrated in the hands of the archbishop of Bordeaux when Gombald, brother of William II of Gascony and bishop of all the Gascon sees became archbishop (989). In 1027, the
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, Sancho VI, and the
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,
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, joined together to select Geoffrey II, an Aquitanian Frank, as archbishop. This represented a new ecumenical rôle for the archbishop spanning both regions. The reigns of William VIII and William IX (1052–1127), were noted for the splendid development of
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in Bordeaux. Parts of the churches of Sainte-Croix and Saint-Seurin belong to that time, and the Cathedral of Saint-André was begun in 1096. During the Middle Ages, a struggle between the metropolitan sees of Bordeaux and
Bourges Bourges () is a commune in central France on the river Yèvre. It is the capital of the department of Cher, and also was the capital city of the former province of Berry. History The name of the commune derives either from the Bituriges, ...
was brought about by the claims of the latter to the primacy of Aquitaine. This question has been closely investigated by modern scholars, and it has been ascertained that a certain letter from Nicholas I to Rodolfus, which purports to date the existence of the primacy of Bourges from the ninth century, is not authentic. As the capital of the Roman province Aquitania prima, Bourges at an early date vaguely aspired to pre-eminence over the provinces of
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and
Aquitania tertia Novempopulania ( Latin for "country of the nine peoples") was one of the provinces created by Diocletian (Roman emperor from 284 to 305) out of Gallia Aquitania, which was also called ''Aquitania Tertia''. Early Roman period The area of Novem ...
and thus over Bordeaux and it was about 1073 that these aspirations were more formally asserted; between 1112 and 1126 the papacy acknowledged them, and in 1146, Pope Eugenius III confirmed the primacy of
Pierre de la Chatre The Archdiocese of Bordeaux (–Bazas) (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Burdigalensis (–Bazensis)''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Bordeaux (–Bazas)''; Occitan: ''Archidiocèsi de Bordèu (–Vasats)'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or ...
, Archbishop of Bourges, over Bordeaux. In 1232, Gregory IX gave the Archbishop of Bourges, as
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, the right to visit the province of Aquitaine, imposed upon the Archbishop of Bordeaux the duty of assisting, at least once, at the councils held by his "brother" of Bourges, and decided that appeals might be made from the former to the latter. Occasionally however, as in 1240 and 1284, the Archbishops of Bourges came to Bordeaux, found the doors of the churches closed against them and answered with excommunication the solemn protests made by the Bordeaux clergy against their visits. Aquitaine was lost to France by the annulment of the marriage between
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and
Eleanor of Aquitaine Eleanor ( – 1 April 1204; french: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, ) was Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of King Henry II, and Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right from ...
(that earlier took place in the Cathedral of Bordeaux in 1137), and Bordeaux became the capital of the English possessions in France. Thereupon the struggle between the metropolitans of Bordeaux and Bourges assumed a political character, the King of France necessarily upholding the claims of Bourges. Most of the archbishops were conspicuous as agents of English policy in Aquitaine, notably: Guillaume Amanieu (1207–26), on whom King Henry III conferred the title of
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and guardian of all his lands beyond the sea, and who took part in Spain in the wars against the (Muslim)
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s; Gerard de Mallemort (1227–60), a generous founder of monasteries, who acted as mediator between Louis IX of France and Henry III, and defended
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against Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester. During the episcopate of Gerard de Mallemort the old Romanesque church of Saint-André was transformed into a
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cathedral.
Pope Clement V Pope Clement V ( la, Clemens Quintus; c. 1264 – 20 April 1314), born Raymond Bertrand de Got (also occasionally spelled ''de Guoth'' and ''de Goth''), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 5 June 1305 to his de ...
(1305–14) was unfavourable to the claims of Bourges. He was born in
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near Bazas, where he had built a beautiful collegiate church, was Archbishop of Bordeaux (and political adviser to King
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) from 1300-05. When he became pope, in spite of sympathies to France proper, his heart was set upon the formal emancipation of Bordeaux from Bourges. By the late fourteenth century, archbishops such as Francesco Uguccione, were supporters of the English. Pierre Berland (1430–57), Archbishop of Bordeaux, was noted for his intelligence and holiness. He founded the
University of Bordeaux The University of Bordeaux (French: ''Université de Bordeaux'') is a public university based in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. It has several campuses in the cities and towns of Bordeaux, Dax, Gradignan, Périgueux, Pessac, an ...
and the College of Saint Raphael for poor students. After helping the English to defend Bordeaux against the troops of
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, he later received
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, into his episcopal city and surrendered it to France. It was during his episcopate that the beautiful campanile known as the Pey Berland Tower was added to the cathedral. The rich and powerful canons of the Churches of Saint-André and Saint-Seurin engaged in frequent and animated conflicts. The artistic investment of the canons of these churches in the thirteenth century is attested by the Gothic portal of Saint-Seurin which is still extant. At the end of the fourteenth century, Vital de Carle established the Hospital of Saint-André, which he placed under the protection of the municipality. It was through the exertions of the Cathedral Chapter of Saint-André that the first city library of Bordeaux was founded around 1402. During the Middle Ages Bordeaux added
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,
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, and Dominican convents, founded respectively in 1217, 1227, and 1230. When, after the
Hundred Years' War The Hundred Years' War (; 1337–1453) was a series of armed conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages. It originated from disputed claims to the French throne between the English House of Plantag ...
, Bordeaux came under French control (1453),
Louis XI Louis XI (3 July 1423 – 30 August 1483), called "Louis the Prudent" (french: le Prudent), was King of France from 1461 to 1483. He succeeded his father, Charles VII. Louis entered into open rebellion against his father in a short-lived revol ...
flattered its citizens by joining the confraternity of Notre-Dame de Montuzet, a religious association formed of all the mariners of the Gironde by heaping favours on the church of Saint-Michel, the tower of which, built in the period between 1473 and 1492, was higher than the Pey Berland, and by furthering the canonization of its former archbishop, Pierre Berland.


Councils and synods

In 1214, an important church council was held in Bordeaux by Cardinal Robert de Corzon, the Papal Legate in France, against usurers, highwaymen, and heretics. A council in Bordeaux in 1215 arranged a peace between Gaillard d'Autorna and Guillaume Gombadi, abbot of Saint Croix. A diocesan synod, held on 13 April 1255 by Archbishop Gerard de Malemort, legislated mostly on matters of clerical discipline, relics, and taxation. In 1262, Archbishop Pierre de Roncevault held a diocesan synod which produced seven rulings, four of them on dealing with excommunication, and the others on burial (forbidding one parish priest from burying the dead of another parish), confirmation (giving proper notice), and marriage (clandestine marriages bringing excommunication to the ministers, contracting parties, and witnesses). In 1583 Archbishop Antoine le Prévost de Sansac held a provincial council which produced thirty-six canons, similar to those which were being issued in other French ecclesiastical provinces, enacting decrees of the
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, especially as relating to the proper operation of seminaries in each diocese. A provincial council was held at Bordeaux by Cardinal de Sourdis in 1624.


List of Archbishops of Bordeaux


to 1100

*Orientalis (fl. 314), participant in the
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*Delphinus (380–404) * Amandus (404–410 and 420) * Severinus (410), sometimes confounded with
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*Gallicinus (post 451) *Aemilius (post 475) *Cyprian (485–511) *Leontius I (post 520) *Leontius II (542–564), participant in the Council of Paris * Bertechramnus (566 – post 585) * Gundegisel (589) * icasius (7th–8th centuries)*Arnegisel (attested 614) *Ioannes (c. 673/675) : ntonius (7th–8th centuries):
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:Verebulphus (769) *Sicarius (814, 816 – post 825) *Adalelmus (829 – post 848) * Frothar (860–76) *Adelbert (post 940) * Geoffrey I (post 982) * Gombald (989 – post 998) *Seguin (post 1000) *Arnold (1022) *Islo (1022–1026) * Geoffrey II (1027–1043) *Archambaud de Parthenay (1047–1059) : ndron (1059)*Joscelin de Parthenay (1060 – 19 June 1086) *
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(1089 – 22 May 1101)


from 1100 to 1400

*Arnaud Géraud de Cabanac (1103 – 29 April 1131) *Gérard d'Angoulême (de Blaye) (1131–1135), usurper * Geoffrey III (1136 – 18 July 1158) *Raimond de Mareuil (1158– 23 December 1159) *Hardouin (1160 – 4 July 1162) *Bertrand de Montault (July 1162 – 18 December 1173) * Guillaume I (1173–1187) *Hélie de Malemort (1188–1207) * Guillaume II (1207 – 13 September 1227) *Géraud de Malemort (1227–1261) *Pierre de Roncevault (23 March 1262 – 11 January 1270) :''Sede Vacante'' (1270 – 4 September 1275) *Simon de Rochechouart (4 September 1275 – 1280) * Guillaume III (1285–c.1287) *Henri de Genève (25 July 1289 – April 1297) :Boson de Salignac (after April 1297 – 22 December 1299) * Raymond Bertrand de Got (23 December 1299 – 5 June 1305), future Pope Clement V *Arnaud de Canteloup, senior (1305) *Arnaud de Canteloup, junior (28 July 1306 – 26 March 1332) *Pierre de Luc (13 May 1332 – 1345) *Amanieu de Cazes (19 January 1347 – 1348) *Bernard de Cazes (17 September 1348 – 1351) *Amanieu de La Mothe (28 September 1351 – 27 June 1360) *Philippe de Chambarlhac (21 July 1360 – May/June 1361) *Hélie de Salignac (24 September 1361 – 7 May 1378) *Guillaume Bruni (11 February 1379 – after 1411) (Avignon Obedience) *Raimond Bernard de Roqueis (1380 – 15 March 1384) (Roman Obedience) * Francesco Uguccione (1384–1412), cardinal (Roman Obedience)


from 1400 to 1700

*Jean de Montferrand (1 July 1409 – 1410) *David de Montferrand (1413–1430) * Pey Berland (16 October 1430 – 1456) *Blaise Régnier de Gréelle (24 September 1456 – 1467) *
Arthur de Montauban Arthur de Montauban (died March 9, 1479), French magistrate and prelate, belonged to one of the great families of Brittany. To satisfy a private grudge against Gilles, brother of Francis I, Duke of Brittany, he intrigued to such good purpose that ...
(11 January 1465 – March 1478) *André d'Espinay (28 April 1479 – 10 November 1500) *Jean de Foix (9 December 1501 – 25 June 1529) * Gabriel de Gramont (1529–1530) *Charles de Gramont (9 March 1530 – 1544) *Jean du Bellay (17 December 1544 – 1553) (Administrator) :Jean de Montluc (3 July 1551 – 1553) *François de Mauny (13 September 1553 – 1558) *Cardinal Jean du Bellay (1558–1560) (Administrator) *Antoine Prévost de Sansac (4 September 1560 – 17 October 1591) *Jean Le Breton (1592–1599) *Cardinal François d'Escoubleau de Sourdis (5 July 1599 – 18 June 1628) * Henri d'Escoubleau de Sourdis (1629 – 18 June 1645) *
Henri de Béthune Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the ' List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Mo ...
(1646 – 11 May 1680) *
Louis d'Anglure de Bourlemont Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis (d ...
(6 September 1680 – 9 November 1697) * Armand Bazin de Bezons (1698-1719)


since 1700

*François Élie de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson (1719-1728) *François Honoré de Casaubon de Maniban (1729-1743) *Louis-Jacques d'Audibert de Lussan (1743-1769) *
Ferdinand de Rohan-Guémené Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "co ...
(26 December 1769 – 28 January 1781) * Jérôme-Marie Champion de Cicé (28 January 1781 – 8 October 1801) ::*Pierre Pacareau (14 March 1791 – 1797) (Constitutional Metropolitan of 'Sud-Ouest') ::*Dominique Lacombe (24 December 1797 – 1801) (Constitutional Metropolitan) *
Charles-François d'Aviau Du Bois de Sanzay Charles-François is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec (1719–1791), French soldier and diplomat * Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance (1739–1824), Third Consul of Fra ...
(9 April 1802 – 11 July 1826) * Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus (30 July 1826 – 19 July 1836) *
François Donnet François () is a French language, French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis (given name), Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of ...
(30 November 1836 – 23 December 1882) * Aimé-Victor-François Guilbert (5 June 1883 – 15 August 1889) *
Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lécot Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lécot (8 January 1831—19 December 1908) was a French archbishop and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Biography He was born in Montescourt-Lizerolles, and studied at the Minor Seminary of Compiègne and Majo ...
(3 June 1890 – 19 December 1908) *
Pierre Andrieu Pierre-Paulin Andrieu (7 December 1849 – 15 February 1935) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and archbishop of Bordeaux et Bazes. He was educated at the Seminary of Toulouse in Toulouse, France. He was ordained to th ...
(2 January 1909 – 14 February 1935) * Maurice Feltin (16 December 1935 – 15 August 1949) * Paul Marie André Richaud (10 February 1950 – 5 February 1968) *
Marius Maziers Marius-Félix-Antoine Maziers (1 March 1915 – 14 August 2008) was France, French Bishops in the Catholic Church , Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church , Catholic Church. Marius Maziers was born in Siran, France, raised in the Roman Catholic Chur ...
(5 February 1968 – 31 May 1989) * Pierre Eyt (31 May 1989 – 11 June 2001 ) * Jean-Pierre Ricard (21 December 2001 – 1 October 2019) *
Jean-Paul James Jean-Paul James (born 14 July 1952) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who was named Archbishop of Bordeaux in November 2019 after serving from 2003 to 2009 as Bishop of Beauvais and from 2009 to 2019 as Bishop of Nantes. Biography Jean- ...
(14 November 2019 – present)


See also

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Studies

* * * * * * *Lainé, Françoise (ed.) (2012): ''Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae. Répertoire prosopographique des évêques, dignitaires et chanoines des diocèses de France de 1200 à 1500. XIII. Diocèse de Bordeaux''. Turnhout, Brepols * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bordeaux, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Roman Catholic dioceses in France Gironde