The former French Catholic Archbishopric of Arles had its

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in the city of Arles, in southern France."Archdiocese of Arles"
'' Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved March 29, 2016"Metropolitan Archdiocese of Arles"
''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved March 29, 2016

Diocesan history

The bishopric of Arles was founded in 330. It was promoted a metropolitan archdiocese in 460, suppressed a first time to become part of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Aix and restored shortly in 1816. The Archbishopric of Arles was suppressed again, and incorporated into the Archdiocese of Aix in 1822. The latter is since officially called " Archdiocese of Aix (-Arles- Embrun)" and is no longer a Metropolitan but an archiepiscopal title, within the ecclesiastical province of Marseille.

Councils

The first Council of Arles was held in 314, for the purpose of putting an end to the Donatist controversy. Bishops from the western part of the empire including three from Britain attended. It confirmed the findings of the

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(313), i.e. it recognized the validity of the election of

Caecilian of Carthage Caecilianus, or Caecilian, was archdeacon and then bishop of Carthage in 311 AD. His appointment as Bishop led to the Donatist Controversy of the Late Roman Empire. He was also one of only five Western bishops at the First Council of Nicea. Bac ...

and confirmed the excommunication of Donatus of Casae Nigrae. Its twenty-two canons dealing with various abuses that had crept into ecclesiastical life since the persecution of

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(284-305) are among the most important documents of early ecclesiastical legislation. A council held in 353, and attended, among others, by two

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s, was decidedly

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in attitude. The legates were tempted into rejecting communion with Athanasius and refused to condemn

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, an act which filled

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with grief. A council was held on New Year's Day of 435, to settle the differences that had arisen between the Abbot of Lérins and the Bishop of Fréjus. In the synod of 443 (452), attended also by bishops of neighbouring provinces, fifty-six canons were formulated, mostly repetitions of earlier disciplinary decrees. Neophytes were excluded from major orders; married men aspiring to the priesthood were required to promise a life of continency, and it was forbidden to consecrate a bishop without the assistance of three other bishops and the consent of the

metropolitan Metropolitan may refer to: * Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories * Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England * Metropolitan county, a typ ...

. A council of 451 held after the close of the Council of Chalcedon in that year, sent its adhesion to the "Epistola dogmatica" of Pope Leo I, written by Flavian of Constantinople (see Eutyches) Apropos of the conflict between the

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and Arles a council was held in the latter city in 463, which called forth a famous letter from St. Leo I. Between 475 and 480 another council was called, attended by thirty bishops, in which the pre-destinationist teachings of the priest Lucidus were condemned. In 524 a council was held under the presidency of St. Caesarius of Arles; its canons deal chiefly with the conferring of orders. A number of Caesarius of Arles' works have been published in Sources Chrétiennes. Little is known of the councils of 554 and 682. The liturgical uses of Arles were recommended by pope Gregory the Great as a model for Augustine of Canterbury. An important council was held in 813, at the instigation of Charlemagne, for the correction of abuses and the reestablishment of ecclesiastical discipline. Its decrees insist on a sufficient ecclesiastical education of bishops and priests, on the duty of both to preach frequently to the people and to instruct them in the Catholic Faith, on the obligation of parents to instruct their children, etc. In 1034 a council was held at Arles for the re-establishment of peace, the restoration of Christian Faith, the awakening in the popular heart of a sense of divine goodness and of salutary fear by the consideration of past evils. From 1080 to 1098,

Aicard Aicard of Marseilles ( 1040 – 1113), also known as Aicard of Arles or simply Aicard, was the Archbishop of Arles from 1070 to 1080 and again from 1107 to his death. Early life and family Aicard was born around 1040, the son of Jaufre I, Viscou ...

continued to act as bishop even though he had been deposed. He was followed on the episcopal throne by Ghibbelin of Sabran, who was later

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. In 1236 a council held under the presidency of Archbishop Jean Baussan, issued twenty-four canons, mostly against the prevalent Albigensian heresy, and for the observance of the decrees of the Lateran Council of 1215 and that of Toulouse in 1229. Close inspection of their dioceses is urged on the bishops, as a remedy against the spread of heresy; testaments are declared invalid unless made in the presence of the parish priest. This measure, met with in other councils, was meant to prevent testamentary dispositions in favour of known heretics. In 1251, Jean, Archbishop of Arles, held a council near

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(''Concilium Insculanum''), among whose thirteen canons is one providing that the sponsor at baptism is bound to give only the white robe in which the infant is baptized. In 1260 a council held by Archbishop

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decreed that confirmation must be received fasting, and that on Sundays and feast days the religious should not open their churches to the faithful, nor preach at the hour of the parish Mass. The laity should be instructed by their parish priests. The religious should also frequent the parochial service, for the sake of good example. This council also condemned the doctrines spread abroad under the name of Joachim of Flora. In 1275, twenty-two earlier observances were promulgated anew at a Council of Arles.

Archbishops

Before 1000

* Trophimus of Arles (c. 250 – c. 280) * Marcianus (m. 254/57) * Marinus (bef. 2/10/313 – aft. 314) * Saturninus (

; bef. 355 – 362/63) * Concordius (m. 374) * (m. 396) * Heros of Arles (408–412) *

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(412–426) * Helladius (426) *

Honoratus Honoratus (french: Saint Honorat; c. 350 – 6 January 429) was the founder of Lérins Abbey who later became an early Archbishop of Arles. He is honored as a saint in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Life Honoratus was born in the n ...

(427–430) *

Hilary of Arles Hilary of Arles, also known by his Latin name Hilarius (c. 403–449), was a bishop of Arles in Southern France. He is recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, with his feast day celebrated on 5 May. Life In hi ...

(430–449) * Ravennius (22/8/449 – aft. 452) *

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(bef. 461 – aft. 475) * Aeonius bef. 23/8/494 – aft. 29/9/500) * Caesarius of Arles (503–542) * Auxianus (542–546) * Aurelianus (c. 546 – 551) * Sabaudus (m. 552 – 586) * Licerius (586–588) * Virgilius of Arles (588 – betw. 601 & 610) * Florianus (bef. 23/8/613, m. 614) * Theodosius (bef. 11/8/632 – 650) *

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(bef. 660 – aft. 668) * Felix (m. 680) * ''Sede vacante'' (or no known bishops) * Elifantus (bef. c. 788 – aft. 794) * Johannes II (m. betw. 811 & 816) * Notho (bef. 824 – aft. 835) * Rotlandus (bef. 852 – 869) *

Rostagnus I Rostang of Arles (or Rostang I, Rostaing; died 913) was Archbishop of Arles from 870 to 913. He supported the coup d'état of Boso of Provence against the Carolingians in 879. Early years Rostang became a monk, and then became abbot of Aniane in ...

(m. betw. march 871 & 904/13) * Manasse (914 – 962/63) * Iterius (m. 963 – ) * Anno

1000–1300

* Pons de Marignane (1005–1029) *

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, Raimbaud, Archbishop of Arles (May 1030 – 18 February 1069) *

(1070 – 1080 or 1096?) * Gibelin (1080 or 1099–1107, 1112 or 1115) *

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(6 October 1115 – 6 March 1129) *

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/ Garin (1129 – 2 March 1138) *

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(1139? – 1 January 1142) *

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(1142–1160) *

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(1163–1182) *

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(1183–1190) *

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(9 October 1191 – 20 July 1202) * Michel de Morèse (August 1202 – 21 July 1217) * Uc Béroard (27 March 1218 – 18 November 1232) *

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(27 July 1233 – 24 November 1258) * Bertran Malferrat,

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(25 November 1258 – 25 May 1262) *

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(28 November 1262 – 7 June 1266) * Bertran de Saint-Martin (11 October 1266 – June 1273) *

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(4 February 1274 – 1281) * Bertrand Amalric (20 December 1281 – 31 March 1286) *

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(5 August 1286 – 22 August 1303)

1300–1500

* Peire de Ferrières (30 January 1304 – 21 September 1307) *

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(1307 – 1309 or 1310) * Gaillard de Faugères (19 December 1310 – 12 September 1317) * Gaillard Saumate (1318–1323) * Gasbert de la Val /du Val (1324–1341) *

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(1341–1348) *

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(1348–1350) *

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(1351–1361) *

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(1361–1374) *

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(1374–1388) * François de Conzié /Conzieu (1388–1390) * Jean de Rochechouart (1390–1398) * Pierre Blavi Blau ? * ''vacant 1398–1404'' * Artaud de Mélan /Méhelle (1404–1410) * Jean Allarmet de Brogny (1410–1423) * Louis Aleman (December 1423 – 16 September 1450)Louis Aleman was later

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. * Pierre de Foix (1450–1463) *

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(7 May 1463? – 11 November 1475) (also Archbishop of Auch) * Eustache de Lévis (1475 – 22 April 1489) * Nicolas de Cibo (1489–1499) * Jean Ferrier I (1499–1521)

1500–1792

* Jean Ferrier II (1521–1550) * Jacques du Broullat (1550–1560) * Robert de Lenoncourt (7 February 1560 – 2 February 1561) * Antoine d'Albon (1561–1562) (also Archbishop of Lyon) * Hippolyte d'Este (1562–1566) *

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(1566–1574) * Silvio de Sainte-Croix Silvio (1574–1598) * Oratio Montano (1598–1603) *

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(1603–1630) *

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(20 July 1630 – 30 July 1643) * François Adhémar de Monteil de Grignan (31 March 1644 – 9 March 1689) *

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(9 March 1689 – 11 November 1697) *

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(24 December 1697 – 12 July 1710) (also Archbishop of Reims) *

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(1711 – 13 January 1741) * Jacques Bonne-Gigault de Bellefonds (20 August 1741 – 4 March 1746) (also Bishop of Bayonne and

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) *

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(17 April 1746 – 20 February 1775) (also Bishop of Vannes) *

Jean Marie du Lau d'Allemans Jean-Marie du Lau d'Allemans (30 October 1738, Biras – 2 September 1792, Paris) was the last Archbishop of Arles, and was one of the Catholic Martyrs of September 1792, killed in the course of the September Massacres which occurred during the ...

(1 October 1775 – 2 September 1792)

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