The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nevers ( la, Dioecesis Nivernensis, link=no; french: Diocèse de Nevers, link=no) is a
diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
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of the
Latin Rite
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of the
Roman Catholic Church
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in France. The diocese comprises the
department
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of
Nièvre
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of
Bourgogne
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.
Suppressed by the
Concordat of 1801
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and united to the
See of Autun
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, it was re-established in 1823 as
suffragan
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of the
Archdiocese of Sens
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens and Auxerre ( Latin: ''Archidioecesis Senonensis et Antissiodorensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Sens et Auxerre'') is a Latin Rite Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The Archdiocese com ...
and took over a part of the former Diocese of Autun and a part of the
ancient Diocese of Auxerre.
History
The ''
Gallia Christiana
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'' mentions as first Bishop of Nevers
St. Eladius, restored to health in the reign of
Clovis by
St. Severinus, Abbot of
St. Maurice. According to
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 sailo ...
, the first authentic bishop is
Tauricanus, present at the
Council of Epaone
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It was one of three national councils of bishops held around that time in former Roman Gaul: the council ...
in 517.
A number of former bishops of Nevers are venerated as saints: St. Jerome (800–816) who rebuilt the cathedral in honour of the martyrs
Cyricus and Julitta, which until then had been dedicated to Saints
Gervasius and Protasius. It is possible that in the 7th century three other saints occupied the See of Nevers:
St. Diè (Deodatus), the same perhaps who died a
hermit
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Description
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in the
Vosges
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.
The following bishops of Nevers were notable:
*the future cardinal
Pierre Bertrandi (1320–22) who, in 1329–30, defended ecclesiastical immunities against the barons in the celebrated conferences of Paris and Vincennes presided over by
Philip VI of France
Philip VI (french: Philippe; 1293 – 22 August 1350), called the Fortunate (french: le Fortuné, link=no) or the Catholic (french: le Catholique, link=no) and of Valois, was the first king of France from the House of Valois, reigning from 1328 ...
;
*
Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon (1540–47) subsequently cardinal and whom the Leaguers wished to make King of France under the name of Charles X;
*
Jacques Spifame (1548–58) who became a
Calvinist
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in 1559, and was afterwards accused of forgery and beheaded at Geneva in 1556;
*the polemicist
Sorbin de Ste-Foi (1578–1606), the Confessor of King
Charles IX and a voluminous writer.
Among the saints of this diocese must be mentioned:
*Sts. Paul, priest; Péreux and Pélerin, martyrs between 272 and 303;
*
St. Paroze (Patritius), Abbot of Nevers in the 6th century;
*the hermit
St. Franchy (Francovæcus); the priest
St. Vincent of Magny in the 9th century;
*the blessed Nicholas Applaine, once Canon of the collegiate church of
Prémery (15th century), whose cassock
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 ...
demanded of Bishop Pierre de Fontenay.
*
Claude Fauchet,
constitutional
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When these princip ...
Bishop of Calvados during the Revolution, was a native of the diocese.
The
Abbey of La Charité sur Loire, founded in 1056, and known as the "eldest daughter" of Cluny, was inaugurated on 9 March 1107 by
Pope Paschal II
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; Bishop Hervé of Nevers was present. The celebrated
Suger
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of Saint-Denis, then a simple cleric, has left an account of the ceremony.
The
Benedictine
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, found ...
Abbey of Corbigny, founded under
Charlemagne
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, was occupied by the
Huguenots
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in 1563, as a basis of operations.
Bernadette Soubirous
Bernadette Soubirous (; ; oc, Bernadeta Sobirós ; 7 January 184416 April 1879), also known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes (''Lorda'' in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in Fr ...
, the visionary of Lourdes, died in the Convent of the Sisters of Charity and Christian Instruction in Nevers, 16 April 1879. The chief places of pilgrimage in the diocese are: Notre Dame de Pitié, at St. Martin d'Heuille, dating from the 14th century; Notre Dame de Fauboulvin at Corancy, dating from 1590; Notre Dame du Morvan at Dun-sur-Grandry, dating from 1876.
Among the congregations for women which originated in the diocese must be mentioned: the
Ursuline nuns, a teaching order founded in 1622 at Nevers by the
Duke of Gonzaga and the Nevers aldermen; the Hospitallers, founded in 1639 at
La Charité-sur-Loire
La Charité-sur-Loire (before 1961: ''La Charité'') is a commune in the Nièvre department and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.
Geography
La Charité-sur-Loire lies on the right, eastern bank of the river Loire, about 25 km n ...
by
Sister Médard-Varlet; the congregation of
Sisters of Charity and Christian Instruction of Nevers, founded in 1680, with mother-house at Nevers.
Bishops
To 1000
*c. 506:
St Euladius
*c. 517:
Tauricianus
*c. 538–c. 541: Rusticus
*c. 549–c. 552:
Aregius (Aridius)
*Euphronius
*c. 567: St Aeoladius (Eloade)
*c. 580 – 26 February 594: Agricola
*Fulcilius
*c. 624–c. 653: Rauracus
*c. 658: Leodebaudus
*c. 660: Hecherius
*c. 665 – 668 : Deodatus (
St Dié)
*c. 666: Gilbert
*c. 672: Rogus
*c. 691: St Itier
*c. 696–c. 697: Ebarcius
*c. 702: Opportunus
*c. 726: Nectarius
*c. 747: Chebroaldus
*Raginfredus (Raginfroi)
*Waldo
*c. 800–816: Hieronymus (Jerome)
*c. 817–c. 829: Jonas
*c. 833: Gerfredus (Gerfroi)
*Hugo I.
*c. 840 – 22 July 860: Hériman
*Raginus
*c. 861: Abbo I.
*c. 864: Luido
*866–c. 884: Abbo II.
*c. 886–c. 892: Emmenus
*
. 893: Adalgaire (?)*894–c. 905: Franco
*c. 906–c. 914: Atto
*c. 916: Launo
*c. 935–c. 947: Tedalgrin
*948–c. 955: Gaubert
*c. 958: Gérard
*959–979 or 980: Natran, O.S.B.
*980–c. 1011: Roclenus
1000 to 1300
*1013 – May 1065 : Hugues II. de Champ-Allemand
*c. 1066 – 1 June 1074 : Malguin
*1. November 1074 – c. 1090 : Hugues III. de Champ-Allemand
*c. 1096 – c. 1099 : Gui
*18 December 1099 – 8 August 1109 : Hervé
*1110 – c. 1120 : Hugues IV.
*1121 – c. 1145 : Fromond
*1146 – 1159 : Geoffroi
*1160 – 14 January 1177 : Bernard de Saint-Saulge
*1177 – 25 April 1188 : Theobaldus (Thibaut)
*1188 – 15 June 1196 : Jean I.
*1196 – 11 January 1202 : Gauthier
*c. 1204 – 19 May 1221 : Guillaume I. de Saint-Lazare
*1222 – 4 December 1222 : Gervais de Châteauneuf
*1223 – 28 July 1230 : Renaud I.
*1232 – c. 1240 : Raoul de Beauvais
*1240 – 1252 or 1253 : Robert Cornut
*1252 or 1253 – 1254 : Henri Cornut
*1254 – 31 May 1260 : Guillaume II de Grandpuy
*c. 1262 – 14 January 1273 : Robert II. de Marzi
*1273–1285 : Gilles de Châteaurenaud
*23 July 1285 – 28 July 1294 : Gilles II. du Chastelet
*28 March 1294 – 4 June 1314: Jean II. de Savigny
1300 to 1500
*1314 – 2 February 1319 : Guillaume III. Beaufils
*28 January 1320 – 19 May 1322 :
Pierre Bertrand
*19 May 1322 – 1332 : Bertrand I. Gascon
*1333 – 12 September 1334 : Jean III. Mandevillain
*20 January 1335 – 15 March 1339 :
Pierre Bertrand de Colombier
*15 March 1339 – c. 1357 : Bertrand II. (Tissandier)
*6 November 1359 – 1361 : Renaud II. des Moulins
*2 August 1361 – 1371 :
Pierre Aycelin de Montaigut
*1371–1372 : Jean IV. de Neufchâtel
*1374–1380 : Pierre V. de Dinteville
*1381 – 16 January 1395 : Maurice de Coulange-la-Vineuse (Avignon Obedience)
*1395–1400 : Philippe I. Froment (Avignon Obedience)
*1401 – 22 July 1430 : Robert III. de Dangueil (Avignon Obedience)
*1430–1436 : Jean V. Germain
*30 August 1436 – 1444 : Jean VI. Vivien
*8 October 1445 – ? : Jean Troufon
*
4461448 – 1461: Jean VII. d'Étampes
*23 September 1461 – 3 June 1499: Pierre VI. de Fontenai
1500 to 1800
*24 January 1500 – 1505:
Philip of Cleves
*9 August 1503 – 31 May 1505: Niccolò Fieschi, Administrator
*31 May 1505 – 12 September 1507 : Antoine de Fleurs
*29 October 1508 – 30 July 1512 : Jean VII. Bohier
*9 January 1513 – 11 February 1519 : Imbert de la Platière de Bourdillon
*13 March 1519 – 22 April 1539 : Jacques I. d'Albret
*5 June 1540 – 23 January 1545 :
Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon
*5 May 1546 – 1558 :
Jacques Spifame
*27 January 1559 – 7 April 1578:
Gilles Spifame
*22 July 1578 – 1 March 1606 : Arnaud Sarbin de Sainte-Foi
*19 November 1606 – 17 June 1643 : Eustache I. du Lys
*1643–1666: Eustache II. de Chéri
*28 August 1667 – 3 September 1705 : Edouard I. Valot
*1705 – 20 July 1719: Edouard II Bargedé
*1719 – 20 February 1740: Charles II Fontaine des Montées
*1740 – 4 April 1751: Guillaume IV d'Hugues
*4 April 1751 – 1782: Jean-Antoine Tinseau
*5 January 1783 – 1788: Pierre VII. de Séguiran
*1789–1790: Louis-Jérôme de Suffren de Saint-Tropez
**1791–1801: Guillaume Tollet (Constitutional Bishop of Nièvre)
From 1800
*1823–1829:
Jean-Baptiste-François-Nicolas Millaux
*1829–1834:
Charles de Douhet d'Auzers
*1834–1842:
Paul Naudo (later
Archbishop of Avignon
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)
*1842–1860:
Dominique-Augustin Dufêtre
*1860–1873:
Théodore-Augustin Forcade,
M.E.P. (later
Archbishop of Aix)
*1873–1877:
Thomas-Casimir-François de Ladoue
*1877–1903:
Etienne-Antoine-Alfred Lelong
*1906–1910:
François-Léon Gauthey (later
Archbishop of Besançon
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)
*1910–1932:
Pierre Chatelus
*1932–1963:
Patrice Flynn
*1963–1966:
Michel-Louis Vial (later
Bishop of Nantes
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nantes ( la, Dioecesis Nannetensis; french: Diocèse de Nantes; br, Eskopti Naoned) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Nantes, France. The diocese consists of the department of Loire-Atl ...
)
*1966–1987:
Jean-François-Marie Streiff
*1988–1997:
Michel Paul Marie Moutel, P.S.S.
*1998–2011:
François Joseph Pierre Deniau
*2011–present:
Thierry Marie Jacques Brac de la Perrière
See also
*
Catholic Church in France
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References
Sources
Reference works
* pp. 333–334. (in Latin)
* p. 189 (in Latin)
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* p. 263 (in Latin)
* 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.
Acknowledgment
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Nevers
Nevers ( , ; la, Noviodunum, later ''Nevirnum'' and ''Nebirnum'') is the prefecture of the Nièvre department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France. It was the principal city of the former province of Nivernais. It is s ...
Nevers