The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nanterre (
Latin
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: ''Dioecesis Nemptodurensis'';
French: ''Diocèse de Nanterre'') is a
diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...
of the
Latin Church
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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in
France
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. Erected in 1966, the diocese was split off from the
Diocese of Versailles and the
Archdiocese of Paris
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. Currently the diocese remains a
suffragan of the Archdiocese of Paris.
Bishops
*Jacques Marie Delarue † (20 Nov 1966 Ordained – 23 August 1982 Died)
*François-Marie-Christian Favreau (1983 – 18 June 2002 Resigned)
*Gérard Antoine Daucourt (22 Sep 2002 Installed – 14 November 2013 Resigned)
*
Michel Christian Alain Aupetit (4 Apr 2014 Appointed – 7 dec 2017)
*Matthieu Rougé (5 Jun 2018 Appointed - )
See also
*
Catholic Church in France
References
External links
* Centre national des Archives de l'Église de France
''L’Épiscopat francais depuis 1919'' retrieved: 2016-12-24.
* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dnanr.html
Nanterre
Nanterre (, ) is the prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department in the western suburbs of Paris. It is located some northwest of the centre of Paris. In 2018, the commune had a population of 96,807.
The eastern part of Nanterre, bordering t ...
1966 establishments in France
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