The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dijon (
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: ''Archidioecesis Divionensis'';
French: ''Archidiocèse de Dijon'') is a
diocese
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History
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of the
Latin Rite
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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in
France
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. The archepiscopal see is
Dijon Cathedral
Dijon Cathedral, or the Cathedral of Saint Benignus of Dijon (french: Cathédrale Saint-Bénigne de Dijon), is a Roman Catholic church architecture, church located in the town of Dijon, Burgundy (region), Burgundy, France, and dedicated to Saint ...
, which is located in the city of
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlies ...
. The diocese comprises the entire department of
Côte-d'Or
Côte-d'Or (; literally, "Golden Slope") is a département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of Northeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 534,124.[Region
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of
Bourgogne
Burgundy (; french: link=no, Bourgogne ) is a historical territory and former administrative region and province of east-central France. The province was once home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th century. The c ...
. Originally established as the Diocese of Dijon in 1731, and suffragan to the
Archdiocese of Lyon
The Archdiocese of Lyon (Latin: ''Archidiœcesis Lugdunensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Lyon''), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The Archbishops ...
, the diocese was elevated to the rank of archdiocese in 2002. The most significant jurisdiction change occurred after the
Concordat of 1801
The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII, signed on 15 July 1801 in Paris. It remained in effect until 1905, except in Alsace-Lorraine, where it remains in force. It sought national reconciliation b ...
, when the diocese annexed the department of
Haute-Marne
Haute-Marne (; English: Upper Marne) is a department in the Grand Est region of Northeastern France. Named after the river Marne, its prefecture is Chaumont. In 2019, it had a population of 172,512.[Diocese of Langres
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Langres (Latin: ''Dioecesis Lingonensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Langres'') is a Roman Catholic diocese comprising the ''département'' of Haute-Marne in France.
The diocese is now a suffragan in ecclesiastical p ...]
. The current archbishop is
Antoine Hérouard
Antoine is a French language, French given name (from the Latin ''Antonius'' meaning 'highly praise-worthy') that is a variant of Danton (name), Danton, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin.
The name is used in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, West ...
, appointed in 2022.
History
Myths
Between the years 506 and 540, it was revealed to
Gregory, Bishop of Langres, an ancestor of
Gregory of Tours
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, that a tomb which the piety of the peasants led them to visit contained the remains of
St. Benignus. He had a large
basilica
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erected over it, and soon travellers from Italy brought him the acts of this saint's martyrdom. These acts are part of a collection of documents according to which
Burgundy
Burgundy (; french: link=no, Bourgogne ) is a historical territory and former administrative region and province of east-central France. The province was once home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th century. The c ...
was evangelized in the 2nd century by St. Benignus, an Asiatic priest and the disciple of
St. Polycarp, assisted by two ecclesiastics,
Andochius and Thyrsus. The good work is said to have prospered at
Autun
Autun () is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France. It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Ro ...
, where it received valuable support from the youthful
Symphorianus
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; at Saulieu where Andochius and Thyrsus had established themselves; at
Langres
Langres () is a commune in France, commune in northeastern France. It is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Departments of France, department of Haute-Marne, in the Regions of France, region of Grand Est.
History
As the capital o ...
where the three brothers, Speusippus,
Eleusippus, and
Meleusippus, were baptized, and finally at Dijon. In the meantime the persecution of
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Latin: áːɾkus̠ auɾέːli.us̠ antɔ́ːni.us̠ English: ; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good ...
broke out, and St. Benignus and his companions were put to death.
The doubts first raised by
Boulliau and
Tillemont in the 17th century concerning the authenticity of these acts seem justified by the conclusions of
G. Van Hooff and
Louis Duchesne
Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne (; 13 September 1843 – 21 April 1922) was a French priest, philologist, teacher and a critical historian of Christianity and Roman Catholic liturgy and institutions.
Life
Descended from a family of Breton sailors, ...
, according to which the ''Acts of St. Benignus'' and the martyrdom of the three brothers of Langres, on which the aforesaid traditions are based, are apocryphal and copied from
Cappadocian
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legends. Animated polemics arose among the scholars of France on the apostolate of St. Benignus.
Langres and Dijon
Under the Merovingians and Carolingians, most of the bishops of Langres resided at Dijon, e.g.
St. Urbanus (5th century), St. Gregory, and
St. Tetricus
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(6th century), who were buried there. When, in 1016,
Lambert, Bishop of Langres, ceded the seigniory and county of Dijon to King
Robert of France, the Bishops of Langres made Langres their place of residence.
Diocese
In 1731,
Pope Clement XII
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Clement presided over the ...
made Dijon a diocese. When formed, it was composed of 164 parishes divided among seven regional deaneries. 155 of these parishes had been part of the Diocese of Langres, and 19 others had come from the Diocese of Besançon. The seven deaneries were supervised by the two archdeacons. The
Abbey of Saint-Etienne of Dijon (5th century) long had a Chapter of Canons Regular who observed the
Rule of St. Augustine; the Chapter was altered to one of
secular canon
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s by
Pope Paul V
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in 1611, and
Pope Clement XI
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made its church the cathedral of Dijon; during the Revolution the Cathedral was transformed into a forage storehouse. The former abbatial church of Saint-Bénigne became the cathedral of Dijon early in the 19th century. From the 1730s the Chapter was composed of six dignities and twelve Canons. The city of Dijon had some 30,000 inhabitants, and was divided into seven parishes. There were two colleges for the education of the young, along with eight houses of male religious, and eight monasteries of men.
Revolution
The diocese of Dijon was abolished during the
French Revolution
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by the
Legislative Assembly, under the
Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790). Its territory was subsumed into the new diocese, called 'Côte-d'Or ', which was part of the Metropolitanate called the 'Metropole de l'Est' (which included eight new 'départements'). 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 canonically within 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 Dijon, René de Mérinville, refused to take the oath, and therefore the episcopal see was declared vacant. He was in fact one of the thirty bishops who subscribed to the ''Exposition des principes, sur la Constitution civile du Clergé'' (30 October 1790). He emigrated to Germany and took up residence at Karlsruhe.
On 15 February 1791 the electors of 'Côte-d'Or' were assembled, and elected the former Jesuit Jean-Baptise Volfius, whose brother was a member of the Constituent Assembly, as their President; they then proceeded to elect him as their bishop. Volfius travelled to Paris for his consecration, which was carried out on 13 March by Jean-Baptiste Gobel, the Bishop of Lydda ''in partibus'', who had just been installed as Constitutional Bishop of Paris. Volfius, and all the Constitutional Bishops, were required to resign in May 1801 by First Consul Bonaparte, who was negotiating with
Pope Pius VII
Pope Pius VII ( it, Pio VII; born Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti; 14 August 1742 – 20 August 1823), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 14 March 1800 to his death in August 1823. Chiaramonti was also a m ...
the
Concordat of 1801
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(15 July 1801). 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'. The Bull ''Qui Christi Domini'' created the Diocese of Dijon out of the two 'départements' of Côte-d'Or and Haute-Marne. The diocese of Langres was reestablished in principle in 1817, but difficulties between the King and the Pope postponed the implementation of Langres until 1823.
Separation of Church and State
Pope Pius X
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's request in 1904 for the resignation of
Albert-Léon-Marie Le Nordez
Albert-Léon-Marie Le Nordez (1844–1922) was a French bishop of Dijon, from 1898, who was at the centre of a controversy leading to the 1905 separation in France of the Catholic Church and the state.
Biography
Le Nordez was born in Montebour ...
, Bishop of Dijon since 1899, was one of the incidents which led to the
Law of Separation of 1905 and the rupture of relations between France and the Holy See.
Bishops
*
Jean Bouhier (1731–1743)
*
Claude Bouhier (1743–1755)
* Claude-Marc-Antoine d'Apchon (1755–1776)
* Jacques-Joseph-François de Vogüé (1776–1787)
* René des Monstiers de Mérinville (1787–1790) (1801)
** Jean-Baptiste Volfius (1791–1793) (Constitutional Bishop of Côte-d-Or).
* Henri Reymond (1802–1820)
* Jean-Baptiste Dubois (1820–1822)
* Jean-François Martin de Boisville (1822–1829)
* Jacques Raillon (1829–1830) (also
Archbishop of Aix
The Archdiocese of Aix-en-Provence and Arles (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Aquensis in Gallia et Arelatensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse d'Aix-en-Provence et Arles''; Occitan Provençal: ''Archidiocèsi de Ais de Provença e Arle'' or ''Archidioucès ...
)
* Claude Rey (1831–1838)
* François-Victor Rivet (1838–1884)
* Jean-Pierre-Bernard Castillon (1885–1885)
*
Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lécot (1886–1890) (later
Archbishop of Bordeaux
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 a ...
)
* Fédéric-Henri Oury (1890–1898) (later
Archbishop of Algiers
) is the metropolitan see for the ecclesiastical province of Algiers in Algeria.
History
* August 10, 1838: Established as Diocese of Algiers from Diocese of Islas Canarias in Spain
* 1838: United with Diocese of Iulia Caesarea
* July 25, 1866 ...
)
*
Albert-Léon-Marie Le Nordez
Albert-Léon-Marie Le Nordez (1844–1922) was a French bishop of Dijon, from 1898, who was at the centre of a controversy leading to the 1905 separation in France of the Catholic Church and the state.
Biography
Le Nordez was born in Montebour ...
(1898–1904)
*
Pierre Dadolle
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(1906–1911)
*
Jacques-Louis Monestès (1911–1915)
*
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(1915–1926)
*
Pierre-André-Charles Petit de Julleville (1927–1936) (also
Archbishop of Rouen
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)
*
Guillaume-Marius Sembel (1937–1964)
*
André-Jean-Marie Charles de la Brousse (1964–1974)
*
Albert Florent Augustin Decourtray (1974–1981) (also
Archbishop of Lyon
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)
*
Jean Marie Julien Balland
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He entered the seminary and later attended the Pontifical Gregori ...
(1982–1988) (also
Archbishop of Reims
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)
*
Michel Coloni (1989–2004)
*
Roland Minnerath (2004–2022)
*
Antoine Hérouard
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The name is used in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, West ...
(2022–present)
[, (11/02/2022)]
Architecture
Romanesque architecture was very popular in Burgundy; its masterpiece is the
Cathedral of Saint-Bénigne of Dijon, consecrated by Paschal II in 1106 and completed in 1288. The Gothic style, although less used, characterizes the churches of Notre-Dame de Dijon (1252–1334), Notre-Dame de Semur, and l'Abbaye Saint-Seine; it was also the style of the Sainte-Chapelle of Dijon, which is no longer in existence. Under the dukes of Burgundy, at the close of the 14th and beginning of the 15th century, Burgundian art flourished in a surprising degree. The
Chartreuse de Champmol, on which
Philip the Bold
Philip II the Bold (; ; 17 January 1342 – 27 April 1404) was Duke of Burgundy and '' jure uxoris'' Count of Flanders, Artois and Burgundy. He was the fourth and youngest son of King John II of France and Bonne of Luxembourg.
Philip II was ...
had
Claus Sluter
Claus Sluter (1340s in Haarlem – 1405 or 1406 in Dijon) was a Dutch sculptor, living in the Duchy of Burgundy from about 1380. He was the most important northern European sculptor of his age and is considered a pioneer of the "northern reali ...
, the sculptor, at work from 1389 to 1406, and which was the acme of artistic excellence, was almost totally destroyed during the Revolution; however, two superb traces of it may still be seen, namely the Puits des prophètes and the portal of the church. The Beaune hospital (1443) is a fine specimen of the Gothic style, and the church of Saint-Michel in Dijon (1497) has 16th- and 17th-century porches covered with fantastic bas-reliefs. The Abbeys of Cîteaux, Fontenay, and Flavigny (where in the 19th century Père Lacordaire installed a Dominican novitiate) were all within the territory of Dijon.
Saints
The following saints are specially honoured:
*
Saint Sequanus
Sigo ( la, Sequanus; french: Seine; died 580 AD) was a Burgundian abbot of the sixth century. He is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, an Orthodox saint and the reputed founder of the Abbey of Saint-Seine and in the Orthodox Church.
Life
Sig ...
(Saint Seine), b. at
Mesmont, Côte-d'Or
Mesmont () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department of eastern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Côte-d'Or department
The following is a list of the 698 communes of the Côte-d'Or department of France.
The communes cooperat ...
, d. 580, founder of the monastery of
Réomé
Moutiers-Saint-Jean () is a Communes of France, commune in the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department in eastern France. It is named after the Moutier-Saint-Jean de Réôme, monastery of Saint John of Réôme.
Population
See also
*Commun ...
around which sprang up the town of
Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye
Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.
It is also a place steeped in history with its archaeological sites, the goddess Sequana; nymph Sources close to the Seine and Alesia, the remnants of its anc ...
*
St. William (961-1031), a native of
Novara
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, Abbot of
Saint Bénign
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e at Dijon in 990, and reformer of the Benedictine Order in the 11th century;
*
St. Robert of Molesme
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Life
Robert was born about 1029 near Troyes, a younger son of Thierry and Ermengarde, no ...
, joint founder with
St. Alberic
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and
Stephen Harding
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Life
There is little archival ev ...
of the
monastery of Cîteaux in 1098
*St. Stephen Harding, who died in 1134, third Abbot of Cîteaux, under whose administration the monasteries of
La Ferté Abbey
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,
Pontigny
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Sight
Its principal distinction is as the home of Pontigny Abbey.
See also
*Communes of the Yonne department
The following is a list of th ...
,
Clairvaux, and
Morimond
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were established
*
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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(1090–1153)
*
St. Jane Frances de Chantal (1572–1641), b. at Dijon, who, having heard
St. Francis de Sales
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's Lenten discourses at Dijon in 1604, conceived a friendship for him
*the Venerable
Bénigne Joly, canon of Saint-Etienne de Dijon (17th century)
*the Venerable
Sister Marguerite of the Blessed Sacrament
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(1619–48), surnamed the "little saint of Beaune", noted for having visions of the Infant Jesus, in consequence of which the pious association known as the Family of the Holy Child Jesus was organized and later raised by
Pope Pius IX
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to the dignity of an archconfraternity.
Among the famous persons of Dijon the Seneschal
Philippe Pot
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Life and career
Born in 142 ...
(1428–94) is remembered for his exploits against the Turks in 1452 and his deliverance from his captors. The illustrious
Bossuet Bossuet is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704), French bishop and theologian, uncle of Louis
* Louis Bossuet Louis Bossuet (22 February 1663 – 15 January 1742) was a French parle ...
was a native of Dijon.
Hubert Languet
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, the Protestant publicist (1518–81), was born at
Vitteaux.
See also
*
Catholic Church in France
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, caption = Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris
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References
Sources
Reference Works
* pp. 548–549. (Use with caution; obsolete)
* p. 284. (in Latin)
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Studies
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External links
* Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France
''L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919'' retrieved: 2016-12-24.
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Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlies ...
1731 establishments in France