The Archbishopric of Vienne, named after its episcopal seat in
Vienne
Vienne (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Viéne'') is a landlocked department in the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It takes its name from the river Vienne. It had a population of 438,435 in 2019.Isère
Isère ( , ; frp, Isera; oc, Isèra, ) is a landlocked department in the southeastern French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Isère, it had a population of 1,271,166 in 2019.Roman Catholic
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archdiocese. It is now part of the
Archdiocese of Lyon
The Archdiocese of Lyon (Latin: ''Archidiœcesis Lugdunensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Lyon''), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The Archbishops ...
.
History
The legend according to which Crescens, the first Bishop of Vienne, is identical with the
Crescens
Crescens was an individual who appears in the New Testament. He is traditionally considered one of the 72 disciples sent out by Jesus in Luke 10. He was a missionary in Galatia and became a companion of Paul. The name 'Crescens' is the presen ...
of
Saint Paul
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Pope Zosimus
Pope Zosimus was the bishop of Rome from 18 March 417 to his death on 26 December 418. He was born in Mesoraca, Calabria. Zosimus took a decided part in the protracted dispute in Gaul as to the jurisdiction of the See of Arles over that of Vienne ...
to the Church of Arles (417) and the letter of the bishops of Gaul in 451; because, although both these documents allude to the claims to glory which Arles owes to St. Trophimus, neither of them mentions Crescens. Archbishop
Ado of Vienne
Ado of Vienne ( la, Ado Viennensis, french: Adon de Vienne; died 16 December 874) was archbishop of Vienne in Lotharingia from 850 until his death and is venerated as a saint. He belonged to a prominent Frankish family and spent much of his early ...
(860–875) set afoot this legend of the Apostolic origin of the See of Vienne and put down St. Zachary, St. Martin and St. Verus, later successors of Crescens, as belonging to the Apostolic period. This legend was confirmed by the ''Recueil des privilèges de l'Eglise de Viene'', which, however, was not compiled under the supervision of the future
Pope Callistus II
Pope Callixtus II or Callistus II ( – 13 December 1124), born Guy of Burgundy, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 February 1119 to his death in 1124. His pontificate was shaped by the Investiture Controversy, ...
, as M. Gundlach maintained, but a little earlier, about 1060, as
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 sailors, ...
proved. This collection contains the pretended letters of a series of popes, from
Pius I
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to
Paschal II
Pope Paschal II ( la, Paschalis II; 1050 1055 – 21 January 1118), born Ranierius, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 August 1099 to his death in 1118. A monk of the Abbey of Cluny, he was cre ...
, and sustains the claims of the Church of Vienne. ''Le Livre épiscopal de l'archevêque Léger'' (1030–1070) included both the inventions of Ado and the forged letters of the ''Recueil''.
It is historically certain that Verus, present at the
Council of Arles (314)
Arles (ancient Arelate) in the south of Roman Gaul (modern France) hosted several councils or synods referred to as ''Concilium Arelatense'' in the history of the early Christian church.
Council of Arles in 314
The first council of Arles"Arles, ...
, was the fourth Bishop of Vienne. In the beginning the twelve cities of the two Roman Vienne provinces were under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Vienne, but when Arles was made an archbishopric, at the end of the fourth century, the see of Vienne grew less important. The disputes that later arose between it and the metropolitan of Arles concerning their respective antiquity are well known in ecclesiastical history.
In 450
Pope Leo I
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Leo was ...
gave the Archbishop of Vienne the right to ordain the Bishops of Tarantaise, Valence,
Geneva
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and
Grenoble
lat, Gratianopolis
, commune status = Prefecture and commune
, image = Panorama grenoble.png
, image size =
, caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint- ...
. Many vicissitudes followed, and the territorial limit of the powers of Metropolitan of Vienne followed the wavering frontier of the
Kingdom of Burgundy
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and in 779, was considerably restricted by the organization of a new
ecclesiastical province
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comprising Tarantaise,
Aosta
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(in Italy) and
Sitten
, neighboring_municipalities= Ayent, Conthey, Grimisuat, Grône, Les Agettes, Nax, Nendaz, Saint-Léonard, Salins, Savièse, Vernamiège, Vex
, twintowns =
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(or Sion in French; in Switzerland).
In 1120
Calixtus II
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, who had been Bishop of Vienne, decided that the Archbishop of Vienne should have for suffragans the
Bishop of Grenoble
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges (Latin: ''Diocesis Gratianopolitana–Viennensis Allobrogum''; French: ''Diocèse de Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church i ...
,
Bishop of Valence
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Valence (–Die–Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux) (Latin: ''Dioecesis Valentinensis (–Diensis–Sancti Pauli Tricastinorum)''; French: ''Diocèse de Valence (–Die–Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux'') is a diocese of the L ...
Bishop of Viviers
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,
Bishop of Geneva
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, and
Bishop of Maurienne
The French Roman Catholic diocese of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (San Giovanni di Moriana in Italian) has since 1966 been effectively suppressed, formally united with the archdiocese of Chambéry. While it has not been suppressed, and is supposed to b ...
; that the Archbishop of Tarantaise should obey him, notwithstanding the fact that this archbishop himself had suffragans, that he should exercise the
primacy
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over the
province of Bourges
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,
province of Narbonne
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province of Auch
The Archdiocese of Auch-Condom-Lectoure-Lombez (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Auxitana-Condomiensis-Lectoriensis-Lomberiensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse d'Auch-Condom-Lectoure-Lombez''), more commonly known as the Archdiocese of Auch, is a Latin Churc ...
and province of Embrun, and that, as the metropolitans of both provinces already bore the title of primate, the Archbishop of Vienne should be known as the " Primate of Primates".
In 1023 the Archbishops of Vienne became secular lords paramount. They had the title of Count, making them prince-archbishops, and when in 1033 the
Kingdom of Burgundy-Arles
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was reunited to the
Holy Roman Empire
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, they retained their independence. They obtained from the empire the title of
Archchancellor
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s of the Kingdom of Arles (1157).
Besides the four Bishops of Vienne heretofore mentioned, others are honoured as saints. According to the chronology created by M. Duchesne, they are: St. Justus, St. Dionysius, St. Paracodes,
St. Florentius
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(about 374), St. Lupicinus, St. Simplicius (about 400), St. Paschasius, St. Nectarius, St. Nicetas (about 449), St. Mamertus (died 475 or 476), who instituted the rogation days, whose brother
Claudianus Mamertus
Claudianus Ecdidius Mamertus (died c. 473 AD) was a Gallo-Roman theologian and the younger brother of Saint Mamertus, Bishop of Vienne.
Biography
Descended probably from one of the leading families of the country, Claudianus Mamertus relinquished ...
was known as a theologian and poet, and during whose episcopate St. Leonianus held for forty years the post of
grand penitentiary
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at Vienne; St. Avitus (494 – 5 February, 518), St. Julianus (about 520–533), Pantagathus (about 538),
Namatius
Saint Namatius ( French: ''Namace'') is a saint in the Roman Catholic church. He was the eighth or ninth bishop of Clermont (then called ''Arvernis'') from 446 to 462, and founded Clermont's first cathedral, bringing the relics of Saints Vital ...
(died 559), St. Evantius (died 584–586), St. Verus (586), St. Desiderius (Didier) 596–611, St. Domnolus (about 614), St. Ætherius, St. Hecdicus, St. Chaoaldus (about 654–664), St. Bobolinus, St. Georgius, St. Deodatus, St. Blidrannus (about 680), St. Eoldus, St. Eobolinus, St. Barnardus (810–841), noted for his conspiracies in favour of the sons of
Louis the Pious
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universal history
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and two
martyrologies
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, St. Thibaud (end of the tenth century).
Among its later bishops were Guy of Burgundy (1084–1119), who became Pope Callixtus II;
Christophe de Beaumont
Christophe de Beaumont du Repaire (19 June 1703– 12 December 1781) was a French cleric who belonged to a cadet branch of the Les Adrets and Saint-Quentin branches of the illustrious Dauphin family of Beaumont. He became Bishop of Bayonne in 17 ...
, who occupied the see of Vienne for seven months of the year 1745 and afterwards became
Archbishop of Paris
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; Jean Georges Le Franc de Pompignan (1774–1790), brother of the poet and a great enemy of the "philosophers", and also d'Aviau (1790–1801), illustrious because of his strong opposition to the civil constitution of the clergy and the first of the émigré bishops to re-enter France (May, 1797), returning under an assumed name and at the peril of his life.
Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus (; es, Miguel Serveto as real name; french: Michel Servet; also known as ''Miguel Servet'', ''Miguel de Villanueva'', ''Revés'', or ''Michel de Villeneuve''; 29 September 1509 or 1511 – 27 October 1553) was a Spanish th ...
was living in Vienne, whither he had been attracted by Archbishop
Pierre Palmier
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, when
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denounced him to the
Inquisition
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for his books. During the proceedings ordered by ecclesiastical authority of Vienne, Servetus fled to Switzerland (1553).
In 1605 the Jesuits founded a college at Vienne, and here Massillon taught at the close of the 17th century. The churches of Saint-Pierre and Saint-André le Haut are ancient Benedictine foundations. The famous
council of Vienne
The Council of Vienne was the fifteenth ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church and met between 1311 and 1312 in Vienne, France. One of its principal acts was to withdraw papal support for the Knights Templar at the instigation of Phili ...
was held at Vienne in 1311 (see also
Templars
, colors = White mantle with a red cross
, colors_label = Attire
, march =
, mascot = Two knights riding a single horse
, equipment ...
).
After the
Napoleonic Concordat
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of 1801, the archiepiscopal title of Vienne passed to the
see of Lyon
The Archdiocese of Lyon (Latin: ''Archidiœcesis Lugdunensis''; French language, French: ''Archidiocèse de Lyon''), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Latin Church metropolis (religious jurisdiction), metropolitan archdioce ...
Diocese of Grenoble
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges (Latin: ''Diocesis Gratianopolitana–Viennensis Allobrogum''; French: ''Diocèse de Grenoble–Vienne-les-Allobroges'') is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church i ...
.
Ordinaries
Bishops
* Castulus legendary celebrated with a feast day since the 13th century celebrated on October 14 (ms CP 601)
* Zacharias (died 106)
*
Crescentius Crescentius may refer to:
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(c. 160)
*
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Austr ...
* Verus
*
Justus
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Jerome
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(Hieronymus) (c. 421)
*
Claudius
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(c. 440)
*
Nicetius
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Nicetius was the most important bishop of the ancient see of Trie ...
(c. 449)
*Florentius II
*
Mamertus
Mamertus (died c. 475) was the bishop of Vienne in Gaul, venerated as a saint. His primary contribution to ecclesiastical practice was the introduction of litanies prior to Ascension Day as an intercession against earthquakes and other disasters, ...
Avitus
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He o ...
Namatius
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(died 559)
*
Philip
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Desiderius
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George
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Wilichar Wilchar), from Latin ''Uuilarius'', ''Uuiliarius'' or ''Vulcarius''. (died 786/787) was the archbishop of the province of the Gauls, succeeding Chrodegang after 766 as the leading bishop in the kingdom of the Franks. Before receiving the ''pallium ...
Wulfar
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(797–810)
*
Bernard
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(908–926)
*Sobon (927–c. 950)
*
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(957–1001)
*Blessed
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c. 1010–c. 1030
* Léger 1030–1070
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*
Warmond
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Hugo
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Robert de La Tour du Pin
The Archbishopric of Vienne, named after its episcopal seat in Vienne in the Isère département of southern France, was a metropolitan Roman Catholic archdiocese. It is now part of the Archdiocese of Lyon.
History
The legend according to wh ...
Jean de Bernin
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House of Auvergne
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)
*
Guillaume de Livron Guillaume may refer to:
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* Guillaume affair, a Cold War espi ...
(or de Valence) 1283–c. 1305
*Briand de Lavieu (Lagnieu) 1306–1317
*
Simon d'Archiac
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Archbishop of Naples
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Bishop of Paris
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Archbishop of Lyon
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)
*
Jean Gérard de Poitiers
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1448–c. 1452 (also
Bishop of Valence
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Bishop of Nîmes
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In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
)
* Antoine de Poisieu (Poisieux) 1453–1473, died 1495
* Guy de Poisieu (Poisieux) 1473–1480
* Astorge Aimery 1480–1482
* Ângelo Catho de Supino 1482–1495
*Antoine de Clermont 1496–1506, died 1509
*Frédéric de Saint-Severin 1506–1515, Cardinal
*Alexandre de Saint-Severin 1515–1527
*
Scaramuccia Trivulzio
Scaramuccia Trivulzio (1465 – 3 August 1527) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Como in Italy, from 1508 to 1518. He was then Bishop of Piacenza, from 1519 to 1525.
He was made cardinal in July 1517 by Pope Leo X. It was ...
March to August 1527
*Pierre Palmier (Paumier) 1528–1554
*
Charles de Marillac
Charles de Marillac (c.1510 – 2 December 1560) was a French prelate and diplomat.
Career
De Marillac was born in Riom and was, by the age of twenty-two, an advocate in parliament in Paris. Suspected, however, of sympathizing with the ref ...
1557–1560 (also
Bishop of Vannes
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Erected in the 5th century, the Episcopal see is Vannes Cathedral in ...
)
*Jean de La Brosse 1561–1567 oder 1569
*Vespasien Gribaldi 1569–1575
*Pierre de Villars I 1576–1587
*Pierre de Villars II 1587–1598
*Jérôme de Villars 1598–1626
*Pierre de Villars III 1626–1662
* Henri de Villars 1662–1693
*Armand de Montmorin de Saint-Hérem 1694–1713
*François de Bertons de Crillon 1714–1720
*Henri Oswald de La Tour D'Auvergne 1721–1745
*
Christophe de Beaumont
Christophe de Beaumont du Repaire (19 June 1703– 12 December 1781) was a French cleric who belonged to a cadet branch of the Les Adrets and Saint-Quentin branches of the illustrious Dauphin family of Beaumont. He became Bishop of Bayonne in 17 ...
du Repaire 1745–1746 (also
Archbishop of Paris
The Archdiocese of Paris (Latin: ''Archidioecesis Parisiensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Paris'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. It is one of twenty-three archdioceses in France ...
)
*Jean d'Yse de Saléon 1747–1751 (also
Bishop of Rodez
The Diocese of Rodez (–Vabres) ( la, Dioecesis Ruthenensis (–Vabrensis); French: ''Diocèse de Rodez (–Vabres)'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. The episcopal see is in Rodez. The ...
)
*Guillaume d'Hugues 1751–1774
*Jacques de Condorcet ? 1754–
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Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan
Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan (22 February 1715 in Montauban – 29 December 1790 in Paris) was a French clergyman, younger brother of Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan.
Pompignan was the archbishop of Vienne against whose defense o ...
1774–1789
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Charles François d'Aviau du Bois-de-Sanzay
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...
1790–1801
See also
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Catholic Church in France
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Council of Vienne
The Council of Vienne was the fifteenth ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church and met between 1311 and 1312 in Vienne, France. One of its principal acts was to withdraw papal support for the Knights Templar at the instigation of Phili ...
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List of Catholic dioceses in France
The Catholic Church in France mainly comprises a Metropolitan Latin Church hierarchy, joint in a national episcopal conference, consisting of
* fifteen ecclesiastical provinces, each under a Metropolitan Archdioceses (15)
** with a total of 80 su ...
Severus of Vienne
Saint Severus of Vienne (died c. 455) was a priest who evangelised in Vienne, France. He is venerated as a Catholic saint.In principle, those recognised as saints prior to 1050 are common to the Catholic and Orthodox churches, so Severus of Vienne ...
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* p. 301. (in Latin)
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Vienne
Vienne (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Viéne'') is a landlocked department in the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It takes its name from the river Vienne. It had a population of 438,435 in 2019.1801 disestablishments in France