The Bishop of Lausanne (French: ''Évêque de Lausanne'') was a Prince-Bishop of the

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(since 1011) and the Ordinary of the

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Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR-74), ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

(Latin: ''Dioecesis Lausannensis'').

Bern german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese , neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen , website ...

secularized the bishopric in 1536. The bishop fled into exile, first in

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, and then in

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. Today, the

Catholic diocese of Fribourg, Lausanne, and Geneva The Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg ( la, Dioecesis Lausannensis, Genevensis et Friburgensis) is a Latin Catholic diocese in Switzerland, which is (as all sees in the Alpine country) exempt (i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, not p ...

has its seat in

Fribourg , neighboring_municipalities= Düdingen, Givisiez, Granges-Paccot, Marly, Pierrafortscha, Sankt Ursen, Tafers, Villars-sur-Glâne , twintowns = Rueil-Malmaison (France) , website = www.ville-fribourg.ch , Location of , Location of () () o ...

. :For the ecclesiastical history, see

Lausanne and Geneva bishopric(s) The Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg ( la, Dioecesis Lausannensis, Genevensis et Friburgensis) is a Latin Catholic diocese in Switzerland, which is (as all sees in the Alpine country) exempt (i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, not p ...

List of bishops

Bishop of Avenches

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(517-535) * Grammatius (535-549)

Bishop of Lausanne 574-1536

Saint Marius Marius Aventicensis or, popularly, Marius of Avenches (532 – 31 December 596) was the Bishop of Aventicum (modern Avenches) from 574, remembered for his terse chronicle. After his death in Lausanne, he was venerated in that city as a saint, ...

(574-594) * Arricus 639-654 * Prothasius 652 * Chilmegiselus 670 * Udalricus 690 * Fredarius 814-825 *David 827-850 * Hartmannus 852-878 *

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878-892 * Boso 892-927 * Libo 927-932 * Bero 932-947 * Magnerius 947-968 * Eginolfus 968-985 *

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985-1018 *

Hugues of Bourgogne Hugues may refer to People: * Hugues de Payens (c. 1070–1136), French soldier * Hugues I de Lusignan (1194/95 –1218), French-descended ruler a.k.a. Hugh I of Cyprus * Hugues IV de Berzé (1150s–1220), French soldier * Hugues II de Lusignan ...

1018-1037 * Henri II of Lenzbourg 1039-1051/56 *

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1056-1089 * Lambert of Grandson 1089-1090 * Cono of Fenis 1090-1103/07 *Giroldus or Gérard of Faucigny 1105-1126/34 * Guy of Maligny or of Marlaniaco 1134-1143 * Amedeus of Clermont call of Lausanne 1145-1159 *

Landri of Durnes Landri may refer to: * Landri Sales, municipality in Brazil * Derek Landri (born 1983), American football player {{Disambiguation ...

1160-1178/79 * Roger of Vico-Pisano 1178-1212 * Berthold of Neuchâtel 1212-1220 *

Gérard of Rougemont Gérard ( French: ) is a French masculine given name and surname of Germanic origin, variations of which exist in many Germanic and Romance languages. Like many other early Germanic names, it is dithematic, consisting of two meaningful constit ...

1220-1221 * Guillaume of Ecublens 1221-1229 * Boniface Clutinc 1231-1239 *

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1240-1273 * Guillaume de Champvent 1273-1301 * Gérard of Vuippens 1302-1309 * Othon of Champvent 1309-1312 *

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1313-1323 * Jean de Rossillon 1323-1341 * Jean Bertrand 1341-1342 * Geoffroi de Vayrols 1342-1347 *François Prévost (Proust) 1347-1354 *

Aymon de Cossonay Haimo, also spelled Hamo, Heimo, Hamon, Haim, Haym, Heym, Aymo, Aimo, etc., is a masculine given name of Germanic language, Germanic origin. The Old French forms are Haimon, Aymon, Aimon, Aymes. It is a hypocoristic form of various Germanic names be ...

1355-1375 * Guy of Prangins 1375-1394 * Aymon Séchal administrator, 1394-1394 * Guillaume of Menthonay 1394-1406 * Guillaume of Challant 1406-1431 * Louis of la Palud 1431-1433 * Jean of Prangins 1433-1440 *

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1440-1461 * Guillaume de Varax 1462-1466 *Jean Michel 1466-1468 * Barthélémy Chuet, administrator 1469-1472 *

Giuliano della Rovere Pope Julius II ( la, Iulius II; it, Giulio II; born Giuliano della Rovere; 5 December 144321 February 1513) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1503 to his death in February 1513. Nicknamed the Warrior Pope or the ...

, 1472-1473, future

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Julius II Pope Julius II ( la, Iulius II; it, Giulio II; born Giuliano della Rovere; 5 December 144321 February 1513) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1503 to his death in February 1513. Nicknamed the Warrior Pope or the ...

, 1503-1513, * Benoît of Montferrand 1476-1491 * Aymon of Montfalcon 1491-1517 *

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1517-1536/60

Bishop of Lausanne 1600-1814

* Jean de Watteville 1609-1649 * Jost Knab 1652-1658 *

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1658-1662 (apostolic administrator) *

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1662-1684 * Pierre de Montenbach 1688-1707 * Jacques Duding 1707-1716 * Claude-Antoine Duding 1716-1745 * Joseph-Hubert de Boccard 1746-1758 * Joseph-Nicolas de Montenach 1758-1782 * Berndard-Emmanuel de Lenzbourg 1782-1795 * Jean-Baptiste d'Odet 1796-1803 * Joseph-Antoine Guisolan 1804-1814

Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva 1821-1924

* Pierre-Tobie Yenni (1815-1845) * Etienne Marilley (1846-1879){{catholic-hierarchy, bishop, bmaril, Etienne Marilley, May 21, 2007 * Christophore Cosandey (1879-1882) *

Gaspard Mermillod Gaspard Mermillod (22 September 1824 – 23 February 1892) was a Swiss Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Despite a lengthy investiture conflict with the Calvinist Canton of Geneva, he served as Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva from 1883 ...

(1883-1891) * Joseph Déruaz (1891-1911) * André-Maurice Bovet (1911-1915) * Placide Colliard (1915-1920)

Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg from 1924

* Marius Besson (1920-1945) *

François Charrière François Charrière (1 September 1893 - 11 July 1976) was the Roman Catholic bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg from 1945 to 1970. Biography François Charrière was born into a peasant family in the village of Cerniat on 1 September 1893. ...

(1945-1970) *

Pierre Mamie Pierre Mamie (4 March 1920 – 14 March 2008) was a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg from 1970 to 1995, following two years as auxiliary bishop there. His earlier career wa ...

(1970-1995) * Amédée (Antoine-Marie) Grab, O.S.B. (1995-1998) * Bernard Genoud (1999-2010) * Charles Morerod, O.P. (2011-Present)

Notes and references

Bishops of Lausanne