The Archdiocese of Reims (traditionally spelt "Rheims" in English) ( la, Archidiœcesis Remensis; French: ''Archidiocèse de Reims'') is a
Latin Church
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Catholic Church
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in
France
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. Erected as 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 ...
around 250 by St. Sixtus of Reims, the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese around 750. The archbishop received the title "primate of
Gallia Belgica
Gallia Belgica ("Belgic Gaul") was a province of the Roman Empire located in the north-eastern part of Roman Gaul, in what is today primarily northern France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, along with parts of the Netherlands and Germany.
In 50 BC, a ...
Countship of Reims
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, making him a prince-bishop; it became a duchy and a peerage between 1060 and 1170.
The archdiocese comprises the ''
arrondissement
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Europe
France
The 101 French departments are divided into 342 ''arrondissements ...
'' of Reims and the département of Ardennes while the province comprises the former ''
région
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'' of
Champagne-Ardenne
Champagne-Ardenne () is a former administrative region of France, located in the northeast of the country, bordering Belgium. Mostly corresponding to the historic province of Champagne, the region is known for its sparkling white wine of th ...
. The suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Reims are
Amiens
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Langres
Langres () is a commune in northeastern France. It is a subprefecture of the department of Haute-Marne, in the region of Grand Est.
History
As the capital of the Romanized Gallic tribe known as the Lingones, it was called Andematunnum, then ...
Notre-Dame de Reims
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, where the Kings of France were traditionally crowned. In 2014 it was estimated that there was one priest for every 4,760 Catholics in the diocese.
Pope Francis
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Reims was taken by the Vandals in 406.
According to Flodoard, on Holy Saturday, 497, Clovis was baptized and anointed by Archbishop Remigius of Reims in the cathedral of Reims.
In 719 the city took up arms against Charles Martel, who besieged the city, took it by assault, and devastated it.
In 816,
Pope Stephen IV
Pope Stephen IV ( la, Stephanus IV; c. 770 – 24 January 817) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from June 816 to his death.Louis the Pious
Louis the Pious (german: Ludwig der Fromme; french: Louis le Pieux; 16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813. He was also King of Aqui ...
as Emperor at Reims.
On 28 January 893, Charles III "the Simple' was crowned King of West Francia at Reims.
King Robert I was consecrated and crowned 'Rex Francorum' at Saint-Remi in Reims on 29 June 922 by Archbishop Hervée.
Hugh Capet
Hugh Capet (; french: Hugues Capet ; c. 939 – 14 October 996) was the King of the Franks from 987 to 996. He is the founder and first king from the House of Capet. The son of the powerful duke Hugh the Great and his wife Hedwige of Saxony, ...
was crowned at Reims on Christmas Day 988, by Archbishop Adalberon. In 990 the city was attacked by Charles of Lorraine, the rival of Hugues Capet, who seized the city and devastated the area.
Councils of Reims
The First Council of Reims took place in 625, under the presidency of Archbishop Sonnatius. It produced at least twenty-five canons.
In 1049, from 3 to 5 October, a Council of the Church took place at Reims under the presidency of
Pope Leo IX
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, with twenty bishops and some fifty abbots in attendance. The Pope was in Reims for the dedication of the church of the monastery of Saint-Rémi, in fulfilment of a promise made to Abbot Herimar.
Cathedral chapter
In 1657, the chapter of the Cathedral of Reims contained nine dignities and sixty-four canons. The dignities included the major archdeacon (Archdeacon of Reims), the minor archdeacon (Archdeacon of Champagne), the provost, the dean, the cantor, the treasurer, the vicedominus, the scholasticus, and the poenitentiarius. There were also a number of collegiate churches in the diocese, whose clergy were led by canons: Saint-Symphorien in Reims (a dean and 20 prebends); Saint-Timothée in Reims (12 prebends); Saint-Côme in Reims (4 prebends); Sainte-Nourrice in Reims (11 prebends); Saint-Pierre aux Dames in Reims (4 prebends); Mézières (a dean, a treasurer and 12 prebends); Braux (12 prebends); Montfaucon (a provost and canons); and Avenay (6 prebends).
The two archdeacons were already in existence in 877, when they are mentioned at the head of the Capitulations issued by Archbishop Hincmar. They were both appointees of the archbishop.
In addition to the right to nominate the archbishop of Reims (since the Concordat of Bologna in 1516), the King enjoyed the right to name the abbot of Haut-Villiers (O.S.B.), Sainte-Baste (O.S.B.), Mouson (O.S.B.), Saint-Nicaise de Reims (O.S.B.), Saint-Pierre-de-Reims (O.S.B.), Saint-Remi de Reims (O.S.B.), Saint-Thierry lez Reims (O.S.B.), Chery (O.Cist.), Elem (O.Cist.), Igny (O.Cist.), Signy (O.Cist.), Vau-le-Roy (O.Cist.), Saint-Denis-de-Reims (O.S.A.), Esparnay-sur-Marne (O.S.A.), Belle-Val (Praemonst.), Chaumont en Porcien (Praemonst.), Sept Fontaines (Praemonst.), and Vau-Dieu (Praemonst.).
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Nicasius of Rheims
Saint Nicasius of Reims (french: Saint-Nicaise; d. 407 or 451) was a Bishop of Reims. He founded the first Reims Cathedral and is the patron saint of smallpox victims.
Vandals
Sources placing his death in 407 credit him with prophesying the inva ...
Saint Remigius
Remigius (french: Remi or ; – January 13, 533), was the Bishop of Reims and "Apostle of the Franks". On 25 December 496, he baptised Clovis I, King of the Franks. The baptism, leading to about 3000 additional converts, was an important event ...
Nivard
Nivard (Nivo) was the Bishop of Reims before 657 and until 673. He was brother-in-law of Childeric II. He restored Hautvilliers Abbey and was later buried there.
Recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also ...
Rigobert
Rigobert (died c. 743) was a Benedictine monk and later abbot of the Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Orbais who subsequently succeeded Saint Rieul as bishop of Reims in 698. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
Rigobert baptized Charles Ma ...
(''c.'' 689 – after 720)
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Milo
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(715–744)
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Abel
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Wulfaire
Wulfar or Wulfaire (died 816) was the archbishop of Reims from 812 until his death. He was an important administrator in the Carolingian Empire, both before and during his episcopate, under the emperors Charlemagne and Louis the Pious.
In 802 Wulf ...
Hincmar
Hincmar (; ; la, Hincmarus; 806 – 21 December 882), archbishop of Reims, was a Frankish jurist and theologian, as well as the friend, advisor and propagandist of Charles the Bald. He belonged to a noble family of northern Francia.
Biography Ea ...
Lothair of France
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Gerbert of Aurillac
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(991–996); later Pope Sylvester II
* Arnoul (996–1021), again
1000–1300
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Ebles I of Roucy
Ebles I of Roucy (died 11 May 1033) was count of Roucy from 1000 to 1033 and archbishop of Reims from 1021 to 1033.
Possible family origins
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(1021–1033; count of Roucy, count of Reims, 1023–1033)
* Guy of Châtillon (1033–1055)
* Gervaise of Bellême (1055–1067)
* Manasses I (1069–1080)
*
Renaud du Bellay Seal
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Gervaise of Rethel Gervaise may refer to:
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* Gervaise of Bazoches (died 1108), crusader and Prince of Galilee
* Gervaise Cooke (1911–1976), British Royal Navy officer and Naval Secretary
* Claude Gervaise (1525–1583), French composer, editor and arranger
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(1106)
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Raoul le Vert __NOTOC__
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* Radulphus Brito (Raoul le Breton, died ...
(1106–1124)
* Rainaldus de Martigny (1125–1138)
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Samson de Mauvoisin Samson of Mauvoisin (died 1161) was the French archbishop of Reims from 1140 to 1161.
He is a significant historical figure of his times. He undertook the capture of Eon d'Etoile, self-proclaimed Messiah. He was concerned about heresy spread by wea ...
(1140–1161)
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Henry
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People
*Henry (given name)
* Henry (surname)
* Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry
Royalty
* Portuguese royalty
** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal
** Henry, Count of Portugal, ...
(1162–1175; son of Louis VI of France)Gislebertus of Mons, ''Chronicle of Hainaut'', transl. Laura Napran, (The Boydell Press, 2005), 68 note 288.
* Guillaume de Blois (
Guillaume aux Blanches Mains
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William was born in Brosse, Île-de-France, France. He was a son of Theobald the Great, Count of Bloi ...
) (1176–1202)
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Guy Paré
Guy Paré (died 1206) was a French Cistercian, who became general of his order, Archbishop of Reims, and a Cardinal.
He was a papal legate to Germany. In 1204 he was made Archbishop by Pope Innocent III; this position also made him a ''pair de Fr ...
Henry of Dreux
Henri de Dreux (1193–1240) was Archbishop of Reims from 1227 to 1240. He is commemorated by a window in Reims Cathedral.
He was an active builder, but his local taxation provoked a revolt in 1233.
He was a son of Robert II of DreuxA History of ...
(18 April 1227 – 6 July 1240)
* Juhel de Mathefelon (20 March 1245 – 18 December 1250)
* Thomas de Beaumes (4 March 1251 – 15 February 1263)
* Jean de Courtenay-Champignelles (15 July 1266 – 17 August 1270)
* Pierre Barbet (17 April 1273 – 3 October 1298)
* Robert de Courtenay-Champignelles (10 April 1299 – 3 March 1324)
1300–1500
* Guillaume de Trie (1324–1334)
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Jean de Vienne
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Early life
Jean de Vienne was born at Dole, in what is now Franche-Comté. As a nobleman, he started his military car ...
(1335–1351)
* Hugues d'Arcy (1351–1352)
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Humbert
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* Humbert of Maroilles ...
, O.P. (1352–1355) (Administrator)
* Jean de Craon (1355–1373)
* Louis Thesart (14 April 1374 – 12 October 1375)
* Richard Picque (12 November 1375 – 6 December 1389)
* Ferry Cassinel (29 January 1390 – 26 May 1390) (Avignon Obedience)
* Guy de Roye (1391–1409)
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Simon of Cramaud
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Simon ...
(2 July 1409 – 1413)
* Pierre Trousseau (2 May 1413 - 16 December 1413)
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Renaud of Chartres
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(2 January 1414 – 1444)
* Jacques Juvenal des Ursins (9 October 1444 – 3 March 1449)
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Robert Briçonnet Robert Briçonnet (c.1450 – 3 June 1497) was a French churchman and courtier, and Archbishop of Reims from 1493.
Life
He was the fifth son of Jean Briçonnet, and an elder brother of the Cardinal Guillaume Briçonnet. He owed much to the cr ...
Robert de Lenoncourt
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(28 March 1509 – 25 September 1532)
* Cardinal Jean de Lorraine (1533–1550)
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Charles of Guise
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Nicolas de Pellevé
Nicolas Pellevé.
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(1588–1594)
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Philippe du Bec
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Henry of Guise
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(1629–1641)
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Léonore d'Étampes de Valençay Léonore d'Étampes de Valençay (6 February 1589, Château de Valençay – 8 April 1651, Paris) was Bishop of Chartres from June 1620 to November 1641, and Archbishop of Reims from 1641 until his death in 1651.The Pontifical France, Chartres ...
Antonio Barberini
Antonio Barberini (5 August 1607 – 3 August 1671) was an Italian Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Reims, military leader, patron of the arts and a prominent member of the House of Barberini. As one of the cardinal-nephews of Pope Urban VIII ...
(1657/1667 – 4 August 1671)
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Charles Maurice Le Tellier
Charles-Maurice Le Tellier (1642 in Turin – 1710 in Reims) was a French Archbishop of Reims.
The son of Michel Le Tellier and brother of François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, both ministers of Louis XIV, he studied for the Church, w ...
Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset
Thomas-Marie-Joseph Gousset (born at Montigny-lès-Cherlieu, a village of Franche-Comté, in 1792; died at Reims in 1866) was a French cardinal and theologian.
The son of a vine-grower, he at first laboured in the fields, and did not begin h ...
Louis Luçon
Louis-Henri-Joseph Luçon J.C.D. S.T.D. (28 October 1842 – 28 May 1930) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Reims.
Biography
Louis Henri Joseph Luçon was born in Maulévrier. He was educatated at the Seminary of A ...
(1906–1930)
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Emmanuel Célestin Suhard
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard (; April 5, 1874 – May 30, 1949) was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1940 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. He was instrumental in the found ...
(1930–1940)
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Louis-Augustin Marmottin
Louis-Augustin Marmottin (March 11, 1875 at La Neuville-au-Pont ( Marne) – May 9, 1960 at Reims ( Marne)) was a French Catholic bishop. He was Bishop of Saint-Dié from 1930 to 1940 and then Archbishop of Reims from 1940 to 1960.
Formation
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(1940–1960)
* Gabriel Auguste François Marty (1960–1968)
* Émile André Jean-Marie Maury (1968–1972)
* Jacques Eugène Louis Ménager (1973–1988)
* Jean Marie Julien BallandBalland was born at Bué (Cher) near Sancerre in the diocese of Bourges in 1934. He studied at the French Seminary in Rome. He was named Vicar General of Bourges in 1980, and Bishop of Dijon in 1982. He was Archbishop of Reims from 1988 to 1995, when he was transferred to Lyon. He died of lung cancer on 1 March 1998, ten days after having been named a cardinal by
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
, and a week after his reception of the gold ring and title of San Pietro in Vincoli. See: François Wenz-Dumas, in the journal ''Libération'', 2 March 199 mort-de-mgr-balland-cardinal retrieved: 2017-01-31. (1988–1995)
* Gérard Defois (1995–1998)
* Thierry Jordan (1999–2018)
* Éric de Moulins-Beaufort (2018–present)
Auxiliary bishops
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Abel de Saint-Brieuc
Abel de Saint-Brieuc was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims, Auxiliary Bishop of Reims (1483–?)."Bishop Abel de Saint-Brieuc, O.P." retrieved January 30, 2016.
Council of Reims Reims, located in the north-east of modern France, hosted several councils or synods in the Roman Catholic Church. These councils did not universally represent the church and are not counted among the official ecumenical councils.
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References
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*''Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae: Repertoire prosopographique des évêques, dignitaires et chanoines de France de 1200 a 1500''. Vol. 3. Diocèse de Reims. Turnhout: Brepols, 1998.
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Studies
* Anselme. ''Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique des Pairs de France.'' Vol. 2.
*Boussinecq, Georges and Laurent, Gustave. ''Histoire de Reims des origines jusqu'à nos jours.'' 1933.
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*Cusimano, Richard, ed., and Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis. ''The Deeds of Louis the Fat.'' Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1992.
*''Histoire de Reims.'' Pierre Desportes, ed. 1983. .
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