The former French Catholic diocese of Senez existed from around the fifth or sixth century, until the

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. Its see was at

Senez Senez is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. Ecclesiastical history Marcellus I, the first known bishop of Senez, attended the Council of Agde in 506 CE; nevertheless, Senez must have been an episcopal cit ...

, in southern France, in the modern department of

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-de-Haute-Provence or sometimes abbreviated as AHP (; oc, Aups d'Auta Provença; ) is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France, bordering Alpes-Maritimes and Italy to the east, Var to the south, Vaucluse to the west ...

. After the

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the territory of the diocese was added to that of the

diocese of Digne The Diocese of Digne (Latin: ''Dioecesis Diniensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Digne'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Erected in the 4th century as the Diocese of Digne, the diocese has bee ...

History

Marcellus (Marcel), the first known bishop of Senez, attended the

Council of Agde The Council of Agde was a regional synod held in September 506 at Agatha or Agde, on the Mediterranean coast east of Narbonne, in the Septimania region of the Visigothic Kingdom, with the permission of the Visigothic King Alaric II. The Council ...

in 506; nevertheless, Senez must have been an episcopal city as early as 439.

Jean Soanen Jean Soanen (1647–1740) was a French Oratorian and bishop of Senez. He was a convinced Jansenist. In opposition to the papal bull ''Unigenitus'', he with Charles-Joachim Colbert, bishop of Montpellier, Pierre de la Broue who was bishop of Mi ...

, the Oratorian, noted for his opposition to the papal bull ''

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'', was Bishop of Senez from 1696 until the time of his deposition in 1727.Catholic Encyclopedia: Digne
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Bishops

*Ursus c. 450 *Marcellus (Marcel) I. 475?-c. 506 *Simplice 541-552 *Vigile 585-588 *Marcel II. c. 615 *Peter I. c. 993-1027 *Ameil 1028-1043 *Hugo 1043-c. 1057 *Stephan 1060-c. 1089 *Peter II. 1089-1108 *Aldebert de Castellane c. 1123-c. 1146 *Erard (Isnard) 1155-1159 *Pons 1170-1174 *Maurel c. 1189 *William I. 1213-1215 *Johann I. 1217-1238 *Peter III. 1238-1242? *Wilhelm II. 1242-1243 *Sigismund 1243-1245 *Wilhelm III. 1246-1255 *Raimund 1255-1260 *Bertrand de Séguret 1290-1312 *Albert c. 1315 *Bertrand II. 1317-1346 *Bertrand III. 1346-1358 *Bertrand IV. 1358-1362 *Pierre D'Aynard 1362-1368 *Robert Gervais c. 1368-c. 1390 *Isnard de Saint-Julien 1392-1408 *Aimon de Nicolaï 1408-1409 (then

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) *Jean de Seillons 1409-1442 *Georges de Clariani 1442-1459 *Elzéar de Villeneuve 1459-1490 *Nicolas de Villeneuve 1492-1507 *

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1507-1512 (Cardinal) *Jean-Baptiste de Laigue D'Oraison 1512-1546 *Pierre de Quiqueran de Beaujeu 1546-1550 *Nicolas de Jarente de Senas 1550?-1551 *Théodore Jean de Clermont de Talard 1551-1560 ? *Jean de Clausse de Monchy (Mouchy) 1561-1587 *

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1587-1601 (administrator) *Jacques Martín 1601-1623 *Louis Duchaine 1623-1671 *Louis Anne Aubert de Villeserin 1671-1695 *

1696-1727 *''Vacant'' 1727-1741 *Louis Jacques François de Vocance 1741-1756 *Antoine-Joseph D'Amat de Volx 1757-1771 *

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1771-1773 (then

bishop of Toul The Diocese of Toul was a Roman Catholic diocese seated at Toul in present-day France. It existed from 365 until 1802. From 1048 until 1552 (''de jure'' until 1648), it was also a state of the Holy Roman Empire. History The diocese was erect ...

) *

Jean-Baptiste-Charles Marie de Beauvais Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Marie de Beauvais (b. at Cherbourg, 17 October 1731; d. at Paris, 4 April 1790) was a French bishop of Senez. Life Beauvais was born in Cherbourg on 17 October 1731, to a father who was an advocate in the Parliament of Paris, ...

1774-1783 * Sixte-Louis-Constance Ruffo (Roux) de Bonneval 1783-1784 * Jean-Joseph-Victor de Castellane Adhémar 1784-1788 * Jean-Baptiste-M.-Scipion Ruffo (Roux) de Bonneval 1789-1790

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* pp. 548–549. (Use with caution; obsolete) * p. 301. (in Latin) * p. 175. * * p. 219. *

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1801 disestablishments in France