The former
French Catholic diocese of Grasse was founded in the 4th or 5th century as the diocese of Antibes. It was originally suffragan to the Archbishop of Aix, and then to the Archbishop of Embrun. The see moved from
Antibes
Antibes (, also , ; oc, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal, AntÃbol) is a coastal city in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France, department of southeastern France, on the French Riviera, Côte d'Azur between Cannes and Nice.
The town of ...
to
Grasse in 1244. It remained at
Grasse Cathedral
Grasse Cathedral, now the Church of Notre-Dame-du-Puy (french: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Puy de Grasse), is a 12th-century Roman Catholic church located in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France. The former cathedral is in the Romanesque architectura ...
until the
French Revolution
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. The diocese was suppressed by the
Concordat of 1801, its territory passing to the
diocese of Nice
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nice (Latin: ''Dioecesis Nicensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Nice'') is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises the Départment of Alpes-Maritimes. The diocese is ...
.
History
The city of Antibes was a colony of the Greek city of Massilia (Marseille). The Romans included it in the ''Alpes Maritimae''. In church organization, Antibes belonged to the Province of Alpes Maritimae, whose Metropolitan was the Archbishop of Aix. Its Metropolitan later, before 1056, became the
Archbishop of Embrun
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Embrun was located in southeastern France, in the mountains of the Maritime Alps, on a route that led from Gap by way of Briançon to Turin. It had as suffragans the Diocese of Digne, Diocese of Antibes and Gras ...
.
The first known Bishop of Antibes is Armentarius who attended the
Council of Vaison in 442.
Louis Duchesne
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Life
Descended from a family of Breton sailors, ...
considered it possible that the Remigius, who signed at the
Council of Nîmes
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in 396 and in 417 received a letter from
Pope Zosimus, may have been Bishop of Antibes before Armentarius. Ralph Matheson, however, believes that this Remigius was Remigius of Aix.
On 19 July 1244,
Pope Innocent IV transferred the seat of the diocese from the port city of Antibes to the interior city of Grasse, due to a depopulation of Antibes and the repeated attacks of pirates, ''propter insalubritatem aeris et incursus piratorum''.
In 1181, King
Idelfonso of Aragon granted Bishop Fulco of Antibes the seigneurial rights over the city of Antibes.
The cathedral of Grasse was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and was supervised by a Chapter composed of (originally) five dignities (Provost, Sacristan, Archdeacon, 'capiscolo'
cholasticusand Archpriest) and four Canons (one of whom was designated the Theologus). The office of Provost, however, was abolished on 30 July 1692. The office of Archdeacon of Grasse was established by Bishop Bernardo de Castronovo on 16 May 1421.
The diocese of Grasse was suppressed by decree of the
Legislative Assembly of France on 22 November 1790.
The arrondissement of Grasse was separated from the
diocese of Fréjus
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 associat ...
in 1886, and given to the
bishopric of Nice
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nice (Latin: ''Dioecesis Nicensis''; French: ''Diocèse de Nice'') is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in France. The diocese comprises the Départment of Alpes-Maritimes. The diocese is ...
which since unites the three former Dioceses of Nice, Grasse and
Vence
Vence (; oc, Vença) is a commune set in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France, north of Nice and Antibes.
Ecclesiastical history
The first known Bishop of Vence is Severu ...
.
Bishops of Antibes
*c. 442: Armentarius
*c. 506–c. 529:
Agroecius
*c. 529–541: Eucherius
* 549 – 570 573: Eusebius
* c. 573 – c. 585: Optatus
* 614: Eusebius
* c. 647–653: Deocarus
* 788: Autbertus
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28: Heldebonus*
30: Aimarus* c. 987 – 1022: Bernardus (I.)
* 1026 – c. 1050: Heldebertus (I.)
* 1056 – c. 1088: Gaufredus (I.)
* 1089 – 1093: Aldebertus (or Adelbertus II.)
*c. 1110 – c. 1135: Manfredus Grimaldi
* 1143: Gaufredus (II.)
* 1146–1156: Petrus
* 1158–ca. 1165: Raimond (I.)
* 1166–1177: Bertrandus (I.)
* 1178–1185: Fulco
* 1186–1187: Guillaume (I.)
* 1188–c. 1195: Raimond (II.) Grimaldi
* 1199: Olivier
*c. 1208–c. 1211: Bertrandus (II.)
* c. 1212–c. 1215: Guillaume (Gausselin) de Saint-Marcel
* 1218–1245?: Bertrand d'Aix, O.P.
Bishops of Grasse
from 1245 to 1505
* 1246–1253 Raimond (III.) Villeneuve, O.P.
* c. 1255 Pontius
* 1258–1277 Guilelmus de Barras
* c. 1281 – 1286 Pons d'Arcussia
* 1287–1298 Lantelmus de Saint-Marcel
* 1298–1299 Guillaume Agarni
* 1299–1343 Geoffroy (III.)
* 1343–1348 Pierre de Béreste
* 1348–1349 Jean Coci (Peyroleri)
* 1349–1374 Amédée
* 1374–1379
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* 1379–1382
Artaud de Mélan
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* 1383–1388
Thomas de Jarente
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(Avignon Obedience)
* Mar–Oct 1389 Milon Provana, O.Min. (Avignon Obedience)
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* 29 February 1392 – 1407
Pierre Bonnet (Avignon Obedience)
* 1408–1427
Bernard de Châteauneuf de Paule
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* 1427–1447
Antoine de Roumoules
* 1448–1450
Guillaume Guezi
* 1450–1451
Pierre de Forbin (Gorbin)
: 1450
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* 1451–1483
Isnard de Grasse
* 1483–1505
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from 1505 to 1791
* 1505–1532
Augustine Grimaldi
* 1532–1533
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* 1534–1536
Benoit Théocréne
* 8 Jan 1537 – 18 March 1548
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(Administrator)
* 1551–1565
Jean Vallier
* 1567–1570
Jean Grenon
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* 1604–1624
Étienne Le Maingre de Boucicault, O.F.M.Obs.
* 1625–1628
Jean de Grasse-Cabris
* 1630–1632
Jean Guérin
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Antoine Godeau
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rançois Verjus:
ean Balthazar de Cabanes* 1692–1710
François Verjus
* 1711–1726
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Charles-Octavien d'Anthelmy
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See also
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*Bianchi, Constant. "L'application de la Constitution civile du clergé dans l'ancien diocèse de Grasse," ''Annales de la Société scientifique et littéraire de Cannes'', 13 (1951–54), pp. 97–108.
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