Eauze Cathedral (french: Cathédrale Saint-Luperc d'Eauze) is a

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located in the town of

Eauze Eauze (; Gascon: ''Eusa'') is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France. History Located in the heart of south-west France, 130 kilometers from the Spanish border, Eauze is originally a proto-Basque city that became Roman. It was t ...

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. The former

cathedral A cathedral is a church that contains the '' cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denomination ...

is a national monument. It was the ecclesiastical seat of the former

Diocese of Eauze The former Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Eauze (Latin Elusa), in Aquitaine, south-west France, existed from circa 300 to 879. Its Ancient cathedral was so utterly destroyed it hasn't even been located. The present Eauze Cathedral, de ...

, which was merged into the Bishopric of Auch, probably in the 9th century. Eauze Cathedral is dedicated to

Saint Luperculus Luperculus (''Lupercus, Lupercius'') (french: Luperc, Loubert, es, Lupercio) is venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. Christian tradition states that he was a bishop of Eauze and was martyred by the governor Dacian during the reign of ...

, who is said to have been a bishop here in the 3rd century before being martyred.

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